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Panchen lama

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Noun
  1. 1
    The second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama. Tibetan

    "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."

  2. 2
    the lama next in rank to the Dalai Lama wordnet

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).

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