List of Tibetan names

All Tibetan names have a meaning in the Tibetan language. Some of the most common names are listed here with their transcription and meaning.

TibetanWylieLatinMeaning
བསྟན་འཛིན་bstan 'dzinStanzin, Tenzin(g)holder of the teaching[1]
རྒྱ་མཚོ་rgya mtshoGyatsoocean[2]
སྐག་བཟང་skal bzangSkalzang, Kelsanggood fortune, good luck, golden age, (a flower)[3]
ཉི་མ་nyi maNyima, Nimasun, day[4]
རྡོ་རྗེ་rdo rdjeDorjeindestructable, invincible, Vajra [5]
དབྱངས་མཚོ་dbyangs mtshoYangtsho, Yangtsoharmony[6] + lake/ocean[7]
བསམ་གཏན་bsam gtanSamtenconcentration[8]
ལྷ་མོ་lha moLhamoprincess, lady, goddess, Tibetan opera, opera [9]
རྒྱལ་མཚན་rgyal mtshanGyaltsen, Gyemtsenbanner of victory, the victory banner, one of the eight auspicious symbols [10]

References

  1. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: bstan 'dzin". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  2. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: rgya mtsho". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  3. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: skal bzang". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  4. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: nyi ma". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  5. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: rdo rje". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  6. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: dbyangs". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  7. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: mtsho". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  8. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: bsam gtan". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  9. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: lha mo". Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  10. The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. "Dictionary: lha mo". Retrieved 2013-12-29.


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