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