Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS)

On ’dom(s) na and ma ’dom(s) na

On July 13, 2021, I posted a piece on under the title “Apropos the Tibetan Expression ’dom na.” Today (May 17, 2026), I am revisiting it and trying to refine it. I am not providing any source references here. In the Mahāvyutpatti and Madhyavyutpatti, one often comes across brief remarks slipped in between the Tibetan renderings of Sanskrit words, such as…...

On ’dom(s) na and ma ’dom(s) na On July 13, 2021, I posted a piece on under the title “Apropos the Tibetan Expression ’dom na.” Today (May 17, 2026), I am revisiting it and trying to refine it. I am not providing any source refer…

On rNam ’dor

In our ITLR ( I added the following note on rNam ’dor: In the Tibetan translation of Śāntarakṣita’s Madhyamakālaṃkāravṛtti (Ichigō 1985: 306), three Brahmanical deities are mentioned by name: rNam ’dor, Khyab ’jug, and Mig mi bzang. Kamalaśīla, in his Madhyamakālaṃkārapañjikā (Ichigō 1985: 307), identifies the first as Tshangs pa and the third as dBang phyug, evidently considering Khyab ’jug to require no explanation....

On rNam ’dor In our ITLR ( I added the following note on rNam ’dor:In the Tibetan translation of Śāntarakṣita’s Madhyamakālaṃkāravṛtti (Ichigō 1985: 306), three Brahmanical deities are mentioned by name: rNam ’…