གཉན་

JH-ENG

evil spirit; a type of wild sheep which has a huge horn structure; "chronic sore" or "tumor" (refers to a swelling with abrasions)

OT

[974] ... 1) rgas pa'i skabs su rwa co sgor sgor du 'khyil nas skyes pa de ha cang ring zhing lci bas thur du 'bab ma thub par skom grir 'chi ba'i ri dwags shig ... 2) sngar bod kyi rigs rus shig ... 3) gnyan nad skyel ba'i sa bdag cig ... sa gnyan/ ... chu gnyan/ ... shing gnyan/ ... rdo gnyan/ ...

JH-C

Comment: see also skran. {PH} Jeffrey, the Health e-file had "gyan", but the printed book (p.204) has "gnyan". Went with printed book. Correct? *Note if changed, also change xref note in skran.

DM

A mammal. See Sandberg, Tibet 296. a clan. Btsan-lha. T&BS I 327. Discussed in Karmay, Arrow 253 ff. Bellezza, Divine Dyads 35. In 64 I 79, these spirits are clearly associated with trees just as btsan are associated with rocks, nAgas with water. = ru ru, e rgya, kri na sa ra, 'khri snyan sa le. JD 232. SS 498.2.

JV

lord of trees, deities of the land, god of earth, elk?, ovis ammon linnaeus, sensitive, place in tibet, powerful & fearful, pestilential disease, epidemic, infectious sickness, plague, species of wild sheep, ovis hodgsoni, class of mischievous demi-gods, 1 of gnas sum cu so bdun, class of powerful beings who dominate intermediate space (the layer or atmosphere connecting earth and sky)

IW

1) kind of wild sheep [in the case of aging horn sgor sgor du 'khyil nas skyes pa very long and heavy, bending downward skom grir 'chi ba]; 2) gnyan clan; 3) {gnyan nad producing sa bdag [Sa/.Chu/.Shing/.Rdo gnyan] plague, argali, powerful, secret, sacred, haunted, frightening, fearful, cruel). 1) kind of wild sheep; 2) gnyan clan; 3) {gnyan nad [infectious disease] and sa bdag producing it * plague, argali, powerful, secret, sacred, haunted, frightening, fearful, cruel

RB

type of powerful nonhuman spirit

RY

mountain god. See {gnyan pa, gnyan po}