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). Wild sheep, Ovis hodgsonii (Phrin Las 1987). gnyan klad / gnyan gyi rwa / gnyan mo'i glo ba, Ovis hodgsonii brain, horn, lung and heart (Phrin Las 1987).
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). Johannes Schmidt (talk) 21:15, 29 November 2021 (UTC)