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.
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.
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