Completion particle, full stop, སླར་བསྡུ་, རྫོགས་ཚིག་

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Articles on Tibetan Grammar

1. Introduction

2. Formation of the Tibetan Syllable

3. Formation of the Tibetan Word

4. First case: ming tsam

5. La don particles

6. La don particles—Notes

7. Originative case

8. Verbs

9. Verbs—Notes

10. Syntactic particles

by Stefan J. E.

• Chapter overview: Tibetan Grammar - Syntactic particles

Completion particle, full stop, སླར་བསྡུ་, རྫོགས་ཚིག་

This particle can come at the end of a section of related clauses, a quote or a sentence.

Spelling

The final letter of the last word is duplicated and placed as an extra syllable with an added   ོ.

• E.g. འདོད་དོ། །, འདུག་གོ །, བྱུང་ངོ༌། །, ཡིན་ནོ། །, ཐོབ་བོ། །, སྙམ་མོ། །, དགར་རོ། །, འཕེལ་ལོ། །, བྱས་སོ། །, གྱུརད་ཏོ། །.

In the case of the final letter འ་ the   ོ is added to the འ་ of the word without a duplicated letter.

• E.g. འདའ་ and འོ་ becomes འདའོ། །.

In the case of no postfix letter, མཐའ་མེད་, an འོ་ is added to the word.

• E.g. འགྲོ་ and འོ་ becomes འགྲོའོ། །.

Example

དགེ་འདུན་ནི་ས་ཆེན་པ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའོ། །

sangha        bhumi        stay           bodhisattva

The sangha are the bodhisattvas, [who] reside on the bhumis.