avaṣaṅga

avaṣaṅga , m., some part of a building: Mvy 5570 =

Tib. ya phubs (? top roof?). Prof. Lo Ch'ang-pei informs

me that the Chin. translation now means grand, huge or

empty, but that the ‘radical’ of the sign suggests a pos-

sible original meaning roof. In MPS 34.61 acc. to Tib. large

beam, gduṅ bo che.