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Repeated lunar date

Also called repeated lunar day · doubled lunar date

A lunar date label assigned to two successive civil days. In the selected Phugpa convention the first occurrence has leap-day status and the second is the subsequent occurrence of that label.

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Word origin · etymology

English descriptive calendar phrase; Tibetan technical term lhag.

Berzin uses lhag for a doubled lunar date. The translation is contextual: the glossary also records other meanings for the same transliteration, so it should not be expanded automatically in unrelated passages.

Alexander Berzin · Tibetan-English Glossary of Astrology Terms ↗

How we know · epistemology

Calendar correspondence with two civil occurrences

Both dates are valid under this convention. A record needs its civil date or occurrence marker to distinguish them; repetition does not supply a separate astrological interpretation by itself.

Janson · Tibetan calendar mathematics, §§3 and 6 ↗

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  1. Janson · Tibetan calendar mathematics, §§3 and 6 ↗
  2. Alexander Berzin · Tibetan-English Glossary of Astrology Terms ↗