Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- ဘုရားသခင်
- Transliteration
- Phayarthakhin
- Rejected alternatives
- ဘုရား, နတ်သခင်
God
CRITICAL: ဘုရား alone (phaya) is the everyday word for a Buddha image, a pagoda, or the Buddha himself, and နတ်သခင် evokes the ranked nat-spirit pantheon. ဘုရားသခင်, the established Christian compound since Judson, must always be used in full and taught as naming the one personal Creator, not a Buddha-image or spirit-lord.