གཡང

JH-ENG

abyss; gulf

OT

[2613] ... 1) dpal 'byor phun sum tshogs pa'i phywa'am/ bcud dam/ bsod nams/ ... g.yang 'gugs pa/ ... g.yang shor ba/ ... g.yang bkug ste khug pa/ ... g.yang 'bod cho ga/ ... g.yang sgrub pa/ ... kha stong pa'i g.yang 'bod/ lag stong pa'i phyag rgya/ ... 2) grog rong gzar po sogs lhung nyen che ba yod sa/ ... nyes can g.yang skyur/ ... mig ldan g.yang mchong/ ...

DM

Compare Southeast Asian concept of "yang" in Bonnefoy, ed., Asian Mythologies. It would seem quite an obvious idea to compare it to Chinese yang, as in yin-yang. A clan. Btsan-lha. Blondeau in Karmay, New Horizons 261. da res la rdog sna dred na / mi lus kyi g.yang nyams su 'gro bas / chos mi bya ba'i thabs med. Zhi-byed Coll. V 514.2.

JV, RB

prosperity

JV, RY

sacred, enriching-presence, abyss

JV

*, *, SA dpal, phywa, happiness, blessing, gulf, *, fortune, glory, the function of phywa which manifests

IW

cliff, auspicious, lucky, fortunate, prosperous

RY

1) sacred, enriching. 2) abyss, precipice, chasm; luck; an abyss, cliff