Where does “གཏེར་སྟོན” come from?

གཏེར་སྟོན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྟོན, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m/s-twaŋ — to see; to show; to see, to view.

གཏེར་སྟོན (Tibetan): A tertön, a Buddhist master who discoveries...

Definitions

  1. A tertön, a Buddhist master who discoveries...

Ancestry of “གཏེར་སྟོན”, step by step

གཏེར་སྟོན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སྟོན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྟོནto show; to face, to front, to look towards; to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanm/s-twaŋto see; to show; to see, to view

via Tibetan གཏེར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanགཏེརSee གཏེར་མ and གཏེར་ཁ
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