ཤོག་བུ། shog bu

Headword

ཤོག་བུ། shog bu

Translation

sheet of paper, paper

Description

Ink and paper are said to be belong to the stipend of the clergy during the Imperial period in Tibet. A chos dpon (“Dharma-Matser”) is said to receive: shog bu deb bcu bzhi | snag tsha yug gsum |. And each of the twenty-five meditators in mChims-phu (mchims phu’i sgom chen nyi shu rtsa lnga) received: shog deb gnyis re | snag tsha yug re. See the g.Yu’i phreng ba (vol. 1, p. 314–315).


For details on paper-making, see by dKon-mchog-bstan-’dzin, ’Phrin-las-rgyal-mtshan & Padma-g.yu-sgron, Lag shes kun ’dus (pp. 235–250).

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