Where does “བོད་ཚེས” come from?

བོད་ཚེས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བོད, from Sanskrit भोटान्त — Bhutan.

བོད་ཚེས (Tibetan): Tibetan date, according to the traditional Tibetan calendar

Definitions

  1. Tibetan date, according to the traditional Tibetan calendar

Ancestry of “བོད་ཚེས”, step by step

བོད་ཚེས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བོད

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanབོདTibet
2Sanskritभोटान्तBhutan

via Tibetan ཚེས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚེསdate, day of the month
Every word from Sanskrit भोटान्त →Every word from Tibetan བོད →