Where does “རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ” come from?

རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བླ་མ, from Tibetan མ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma — no, not, negative, not have, none.

རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ (Tibetan): root lama

Definitions

  1. root lama

Ancestry of “རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ”, step by step

རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བླ་མ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབླ་མlama - an accomplished spiritual teacher, guru
2Tibetanམmother; goddess; negates the following verb in...
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanmano, not, negative, not have, none

via Tibetan རྩ་བ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྩ་བroot; origin, source; basis, foundation
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-saobscure internal channel; vein, muscle, pulse,...

via Tibetan འི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanའིOne of the five genitive particles, used after...
2TibetanགིOne of the five genitive particles, used after
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