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communism

གུང་​བྲན་​རིང་​ལུགས།

[Ch.; var. དམར་​པོའི་​རིང་​རིང་​ལུགས།]

communism. After Buddhism, the ideological and spiritual system having the greatest impact upon the life and culture of modern Tibetans. The term གུང་​བྲན། (communist) is a Chinese loan word; སྤྱི་​ཚོགས་​རིང་​ལུགས། [lit. general + together + "ism" = socialism] is perhaps more commonly used.