gnyan
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lord of trees, deities of the land, god of earth, elk?, ovis ammon linnaeus, sensitive, place in tibet, powerful & fearful, pestilential disease, epidemic, infectious sickness, plague, species of wild sheep, ovis hodgsoni, class of mischievous demi-gods, 1 of gnas sum cu so bdun, class of powerful beings who dominate intermediate space (the layer or atmosphere connecting earth and sky) [JV]
mountain god [RY]
See gnyan pa, gnyan po [RY]
1) kind of wild sheep; 2) gnyan clan; 3) [[gnyan nad [infectious disease] and sa bdag producing it * plague, argali, powerful, secret, sacred, haunted, frightening, fearful, cruel [IW]
type of powerful nonhuman spirit [RB]
1) kind of wild sheep [in the case of aging horn sgor sgor du 'khyil nas skyes pa very long and heavy, bending downward skom grir 'chi ba]; 2) gnyan clan; 3) [[gnyan nad producing sa bdag [Sa/.Chu/.Shing/.Rdo gnyan] plague, argali, powerful, secret, sacred, haunted, frightening, fearful, cruel) [IW]
(med) Argali (Ovis ammon) (Drungtso 1999)
Synonyms : ru ru, e rgya, kri na sa ra, 'khri snyan sa le ('Jam-dpal)
gnyan ni / 'chi med mdzod las / ru ru / e rgya / kri na sa ra / 'khri snyan sa le rnams gcig tu bshad / rgya bal nas 'ong ba che chung dgo ba tsam las dbyibs ra lta bu gdong sna g.yag 'dra bar / rgyab smug ser thig can brang dkar mdog rno la spu rtsub / rwa nag dgo rwa lta bu phra / rwa gnyis 'khyil zhing 'khril ba'o // kha cig gis bai sngon du lug thug gi rwa 'dra ba zhes tsam 'chad pa la nor nas gna' pho'i rwa la 'dzin na'ang / gnyan gna'i pho mo so sor 'dug go / rgyud las / gnyan gyi rwa yis rims nad sel bar byed // ces so // (mDzes mtshar mig rgyan, print p 232)
Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (23_032) gnyan (30_017) gnyan gyi rwa (30_075) gnyan klad (33_082) gnyan mo'i glo ba. Jam-dpal (print p 232) gnyan
Argali sheep are found in mountainous areas in central Asia above 1000 m, from the Altai south to the Himalayas in Tibet. The landscape of central Asia is vast and mostly open, dominated by grasses. Ovis ammon is the largest of the world’s sheep (60 - 185 kg), Horns with a corkscrew shape are a prominent feature (animaldiversity.org). <br
The illustrations in the Medical Thangkas corresponds to an Argali, but the one in the Eye Ornament differs clearly. It shows rather the straight horns of an antelope or a goat than the curved one's of a sheep. And he compares them to those of the dgo ba, the Tibetan gazelle (actually a species of antelope).
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 09:14, 19 February 2024 (EST)