Etymograph

English

Kagyu

Kagyu comes from Tibetan བཀའ་བརྒྱུད.

  1. Tibetanmodernབཀའ་བརྒྱུདbka' brgyud
  2. EnglishtodayKagyu

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Tibetanmodernབཀའ་བརྒྱུདbka' brgyud
  2. EnglishtodayKagyu

Today it means

name One of four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Tibetan བཀའ་བརྒྱུད / Kagyu