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In the Tibetan diaspora, Tibetans often turn to the Dalai Lama for names for their children. As a result, the exile community has an overwhelming population of boys and girls whose first name is "Tenzin", the personal first name of the 14th Dalai Lama. Personal names are in most cases composed of readily understood Tibetan words.
Dharmarakṣa, Yuezhi monk, the first known translator of the Lotus Sutra into Chinese; Jñānagupta (561–592), monk and translator from Gandhara, Pakistan; Kumārajīva (c. 401), Kuchan monk and one of the most important translators; Lokaksema, Kushan monk from Gandhara, first translator of Mahayana scriptures into Chinese, around 180 CE
Tenzin (Standard Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན) is a Tibetan given name, meaning "the holder of Buddha Dharma". Tenzin can alternatively be spelled as Tenzing and Stanzin as well. Stanzin is generally used by the Ladakhi people, since Ladakhi language retains many archaic forms that have been lost in other modern Tibetan languages. For ...
It was called the Ganden Phodrang, a name later adopted by the Tibetan Government, [37] and it served as home for Dalai Lamas until the Fifth moved to the Potala Palace in 1645. In 1525, already abbot of Chokhorgyel, Drepung and Tashilhunpo, he was made abbot of Sera monastery as well, and worked to increase the number of monks there.
A Dharma name is a new name acquired during both lay and monastic Buddhist initiation rituals in Mahayana Buddhism [1] and monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism (where it is more proper to call it Dhamma or Sangha name). The name is traditionally given by a Buddhist monastic, and is given to newly ordained monks, nuns [2] and laity. [3]
Tibetan Buddhist monks at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. Kagyu monasteries are mostly in Kham, eastern Tibet. Tsurphu and Ralung are in central Tibet: Drigung Monastery — the seat of the Könchog Tenzin Kunzang Thinley Lhundrub; Palpung Monastery — the seat of the Tai Situpa and Jamgon Kongtrul; Ralung Monastery — the seat of the Gyalwang Drukpa
On 11 June 1949, at twelve years of age in the Tibetan counting system, Gonpo Tseten was enthroned at the major Gelugpa monastery in Amdo, Kumbum Jampa Ling monastery as the 10th Panchen Lama and given the name Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen.
A Tibetan Buddhist Monk meditating using chanting and drumming. The 14th Dalai Lama defines meditation ( bsgom pa ) as "familiarization of the mind with an object of meditation." [ 142 ] Traditionally, Tibetan Buddhism follows the two main approaches to meditation or mental cultivation ( bhavana ) taught in all forms of Buddhism, śamatha (Tib.