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Tibetan lunar day

Also called tshes-zhag · tshes zhag

One of thirty divisions of a lunar month in Tibetan calendrical calculation. Its numbered label is assigned to civil days by the selected calendar rules, so a label may be omitted or repeated.

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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.

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 ↗