G145: history (outlined)

There is currently no Literary Form.
Names
  • khog 'bugs/
  • khog 'bubs/
  • khog dbub/
Parent Literary Form
Description
  • on the genre designation, see Martin 1997 (p. 14, no. 9): "The histories of traditional science in general but primarily of medicine called khog dbub, khog 'bugs or, probably more correctly, khog 'bubs (a term of uncertain etymology, sometimes used in the sense of a 'general outline', probably with analogy to the ribs of an umbrella or of a tent [or any similar structure] that 'arch over' or 'form a canopy over' ['bubs] an 'interior space' [khog])."