Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

panchen lama

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English

Syllables: panchen la-ma
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.

Example Sentences

"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."

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).

Inflected Forms

Panchen Lamas (plural)

Synonyms

Tashi Lama

Questions

What does panchen lama mean?: The second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.
Where does panchen lama come from?: 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).

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