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Phugpa

A Tibetan calendrical tradition with its own constants and month rules; another lineage can assign a different date.

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Word origin · etymology

Tibetan lineage name: Phug-pa.

Named for Phugpa Lhundrub Gyatso, associated with the fifteenth-century calendar version. Phukluk/phug-lugs is a related tradition label; deeper personal-name derivation is left open.

Svante Janson: Tibetan calendar mathematics ↗

How we know · epistemology

Tibetan calendrical lineage

The date follows a particular set of astronomical and calendrical rules, including omitted and repeated days. Another lineage may legitimately give a different label; a converter must expose its tradition rather than present a universal Tibetan date.

Svante Janson: Tibetan calendar mathematics ↗

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  1. Svante Janson: Tibetan calendar mathematics ↗