Where does “རིགས་རྒྱུད” come from?

རིགས་རྒྱུད (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རིགས — kind, type, sort.

རིགས་རྒྱུད (Tibetan): lineage, extraction, ethnicity, race

Definitions

  1. lineage, extraction, ethnicity, race

Ancestry of “རིགས་རྒྱུད”, step by step

རིགས་རྒྱུད traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རིགས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརིགསkind, type, sort

via Tibetan རྒྱུད

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1Tibetanརྒྱུདstring
Every word from Tibetan རིགས