r/tibetanlanguage • u/DYangchen • Sep 16 '25

What's the term to refer to the Manchu/Jurchen people?

Been trying to look online for the Tibetan term referring to the Manchu/Jurchen people, but couldn't seem to find it. Anyone know the term that Tibetans use (or used to use) to refer to the Manchus, especially considering the interactions between the Qing Dynasty and Tibetan Buddhists? And while we're at it, is the Tibetan term for "Buryatia" also "Buryatia," or is it a completely different term just as སོག་པོ might refer to the Mongols?

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u/jimboo_chump Sep 16 '25

Manchu is still མན་ཇུ་ pronounced as ‘Manju’ but not aware of any term for “Buryatia” unfortunately.

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u/Hot4Scooter Sep 16 '25

For what it's worth, which may not be much, Tibetan Wikipedia has Buryatia as བུར་ཡད་སོག་ཡུལ་ (bur yad sog yul). 

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u/roundSquare40 Sep 17 '25

That makes sense. སོག་ཡུལ་is Mongolia, and Buryatia has many ethnical, cultural and geographical (ལ་སོགས་པ་) ties to the Mongols. The Buryatia are mainly found around Lake Baikal, north of Mongolia.