Panchen Lama

Pan·chen La·ma

P0038300 (pän′chən lä′mə)n. Tibetan Buddhism's second highest lama, below the Dalai Lama.

[Tibetan paṇchen bla-ma : paṇchen, great scholar (Sanskrit paṇḍitaḥ, scholar; see pundit + Tibetan chen-po, great) + Tibetan bla-ma, monk; see lama.]

Panchen Lama

(ˈpɑːntʃən) n (Buddhism) one of the two Grand Lamas of Tibet, ranking below the Dalai Lama. Also called: Tashi Lama [from Tibetan panchen, literally: great jewel, from the title of the lama (in full: great jewel among scholars)]

Ta•shi La•ma

(ˈtɑ ʃi ˈlɑ mə)
n. a Tibetan monk and spiritual leader second in rank to the Dalai Lama. Also called Panchen Lama. [after Tashi (Lumpo), the monastery of which this Lama is abbot]

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Panchen Lama - the lama next in rank to the Dalai Lamalama - a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism

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see Tibetan BuddhismTibetan Buddhism,
form of Buddhism prevailing in the Tibet region of China, Bhutan, the state of Sikkim in India, Mongolia, and parts of Siberia and SW China. It has sometimes been called Lamaism, from the name of the Tibetan monks, the lamas [superior ones].
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Panchen Lama

(from pan, shortened form of Sanskrit pandit, “learned man”; Tibetan chen, “great”; and Tibetan lama, “superior”), the title of the second hierarch, after the Dalai Lama, in Tibetan Lamaism. The institution of the Panchen Lama has existed since the mid-17th century. The tenth Panchen Lama was Lobsan Prinlelhuntrup Chkhoki-gyetsei (born 1938). He was elevated to the rank in 1949. He occupied a series of important government posts in the autonomous region of Tibet. He was arrested in 1964, and his subsequent fate is unknown.

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noun the lama next in rank to the Dalai Lama

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