thon mi sam bhoṭa (English spelling) thonmisambhota

Japanese: thon mi sam bhoṭa(英語表記)thonmisambhota
thon mi sam bhoṭa (English spelling) thonmisambhota

...In Tibetan, it is called bod yig (hereinafter, the romanization is in principle the romanization of the Tibetan spelling). In the 7th century, Songtsen Gampo (581-649), who founded the kingdom of Tubo according to Chinese historical sources, is said to have sent his minister Thonmi Sambhota to India to create a new script based on the pronunciation of one of the dialects in central Tibet (U-Tsang region) at that time, using Indian script as a model. There are various theories about which script was the model, but the Gupta script is the most likely.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "thon mi sam bhoṭa" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…チベット語ではプイィbod yig(以下ローマ字は原則としてチベット文字によるつづり字のローマ字転写)という。7世紀,中国史料によるところの〈吐蕃〉王国を創始したソンツェン・ガンポ(581‐649)が,伝承によれば大臣トゥンミ・サンボタthon mi sam bhoṭaをインドに派遣し,インド系文字を範とし,当時の中央チベット(ウーツァン(衛蔵)地方)のいずれかの方言の発音に基づいて作らせたといわれる。範となった文字がどこの文字であったのかについて諸説があるが,グプタ文字説が有力である。…

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