སྤྲུལ་སྐུ

Tibetan

Etymology

སྤྲུལ (sprul, “to juggle, to make phantoms appear, to change, to transform”) +‎ སྐུ (sku, “body; the person of Buddha; image, statue of Buddha”). Short for སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ (sprul pa'i sku) or སྤྲུལ་པ་སྐུ (sprul pa sku).

Equivalent to Sanskrit निर्माणकाय (nirmāṇakāya), Chinese 應身, 化身, Mongolian хувилгаан (xuvilgaan).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*sprul.sku/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.ku˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sprul.sku/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhue^f-gu^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.ku˥˥/

Noun

སྤྲུལ་སྐུ • (sprul sku)

Tulku (a concept in Tibetan Buddhism); "emanation body", reincarnation

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