Tibetan cultural customs, traditions, and etiquette vocabulary, one custom or term per card.
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- ལོ་གསར (Losar)
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The Tibetan New Year, the most important annual festival, celebrated with family gatherings and special foods.- ཁ་བཏགས (Khatak)
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A ceremonial white scarf offered as a gesture of respect, welcome, or good wishes.- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར (Kyilkhor)
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A mandala, a symbolic circular diagram used in meditation and ritual, sometimes made from colored sand.- ཐང་ཀ (Thangka)
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A traditional Tibetan Buddhist painting, usually on cloth, depicting deities or mandalas.- མ་ཎི་འཁོར་ལོ (Mani khorlo)
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A prayer wheel, a cylinder inscribed with mantras that is spun to accumulate merit.- རླུང་རྟ (Lungta)
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Prayer flags printed with mantras and symbols, hung outdoors to spread blessings on the wind.- མཆོད་རྟེན (Chörten)
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A stupa, a dome-shaped Buddhist monument often containing sacred relics.- དགོན་པ (Gönpa)
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A Buddhist monastery, a center for monks and religious study.- གྲྭ་པ (Drapa)
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A Buddhist monk.- བླ་མ (Lama)
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A respected spiritual teacher in Tibetan Buddhism.- བོད་ཇ (Böja)
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Butter tea, a traditional drink made with tea, yak butter, and salt.- རྩམ་པ (Tsampa)
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Roasted barley flour, a traditional staple food often mixed with butter tea.- སྐོར་ར (Kora)
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The devotional practice of walking clockwise around a sacred site, such as a temple or mountain.- ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ (Om mani padme hum)
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A widely recited mantra invoking compassion, associated with the bodhisattva of compassion.- ཆང (Chang)
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A traditional fermented barley drink, similar to a light beer.
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