Where does “tulku” come from?

tulku (English) comes from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་སྐུ, from Tibetan སྐུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-kəw — body; chest; thorax; corpse.

tulku (English): In Tibetan Buddhism, a high-ranking lama who can...

Definitions

  1. In Tibetan Buddhism, a high-ranking lama who can...

Ancestry of “tulku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྤྲུལ་སྐུTulku a concept in Tibetan Buddhism; "emanation body", reincarnation
2Tibetanསྐུbody; image, statue
3Proto-Sino-Tibetans-kəwbody; chest; thorax; corpse
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-kəw →Every word from Tibetan སྐུ →Every word from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་སྐུ →
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