Where does “རིག་གཞུང” come from?

རིག་གཞུང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གཞུང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan t/duŋ — navel; centre.

རིག་གཞུང (Tibetan): culture

Definitions

  1. culture

Ancestry of “རིག་གཞུང”, step by step

རིག་གཞུང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གཞུང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཞུངcentre, core, middle; text, scripture,...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetant/duŋnavel; centre

via Tibetan རིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརིགto know, to understand
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