Postmodifying Compounds
The structure of these compounds is noun (modified) + adjective (modifier):
- གླང་ཆེན་ “Elephant” (bull-big)
- རྡོ་རིང་ “Stone pillar,” “standing stone” (stone-long)
- ངོ་ཚ་ “Shame” (face-hot)
- ཚོགས་ཆེན་ “Great assembly” (gathering-big)
- རྫོགས་ཆེན་ “Path of the great perfection” (perfection-great)
- བྱ་རྒོད་ “Vulture” (bird-wild)
- ལམ་རིམ་ “Graduated path” (path-progressive)
- བློ་བཟང་ Lopzang (personal name: mind-excellent)
- ཚེ་རིང་ Tsering (personal name: life-long)