nyos pa
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]