Word origin · etymology
English descriptive label; Tibetan tshes-zhag.
Berzin translates tshes-zhag as lunar date day. This records the specialist translation; an earlier historical derivation of the Tibetan compound is not established here.
Alexander Berzin · Tibetan-English Glossary of Astrology Terms ↗
How we know · epistemology
Traditional calendrical model and civil-date assignment
A numbered lunar day and a civil day are different units. The tool reproduces the declared calendar model; its day label is not an observed modern lunar-phase timestamp.
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