པར་ཡིག་འབྲི་མི། par yig ’bri mi

Headword

པར་ཡིག་འབྲི་མི། par yig ’bri mi

Translation

scribe of template-copy?

Description

To render par yig as “master-copy” would be misleading because obviously what is meant here not ma yig “master/mother copy” but bu yig “offspring-copy,” whose mirror-image will transfered to the woodblocks.

Sources for Term

’Jigs-med-dbang-po, Co ne’i bstan dkar (p. 447.9–10).