སྤྲུལ་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

སྤྲུལ (sprul, “to transform”) +‎ པ (pa, “nominal suffix”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*sprul.pa/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.pə˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sprul.pa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhue^f-bac^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.pə˥˥/

Noun

སྤྲུལ་པ • (sprul pa)

magical creation, emanation, apparition, incarnation

Derived terms

སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ (sprul pa'i sku), སྤྲུལ་པ་སྐུ (sprul pa sku)

Descendants

→ English: tulpa