དགེ་བཤེས

Dzongkha

Noun

དགེ་བཤེས (dge bshes)

Buddhist scholar
learned Buddhist teacher
philosopher
person who holds a PhD degree
person who holds a (Tibetan) Geshe academic degree

Tibetan

Etymology

Calque of Pali kalyāṇa-mitta, from དགེ (dge, “virtue, merit”) +‎ བཤེས (bshes, “friend”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*dɡe.pɕes/
Lhasa: /ke˩˨.ɕe˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*dɡe.pɕes/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ge^v-xe^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ke˩˨.ɕe˥˨/

Noun

དགེ་བཤེས • (dge bshes)

geshe (title for a Tibetan Buddhist monk)

Descendants

English: geshe
Dzongkha: དགེ་བཤེས (dge bshes)

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