Panchen Lama
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Etymology
Tibetan པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ (pan chen bla ma). From Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “scholar”) + Tibetan ཆེན་པོ (chen po, “big”) + Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
Noun
Panchen Lama (plural Panchen Lamas)
- (Tibetan Buddhism) The second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.
- Synonym: Tashi Lama
- 1985, Alastair Lamb, “Introduction”, in India and Tibet, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page v:
- Hastings sent two embassies to Tibet, those of George Bogle in 1774-5 and Samuel Turner in 1783. Both envoys went to the Panchen Lama’s residence near Shigatse (Jihkatse), but neither visited the Dalai Lama at Lhasa.
Translations
second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
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Panchen Lama m (plural Panchen Lamas)
- (Tibetan Buddhism) Panchen Lama (second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism)
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