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- Tibetan · borrowed fromགཅོད“to sever”
- English todayChöd
Borrowed from Tibetan གཅོད (gcod, “to sever”), short for གཅོད་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས (gcod sgrub thabs), equivalent to Sanskrit छेद साधना (cheda sādhanā); both literally "cutting practice".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.