Meanings
plural Panchen Lamas
- TibetanBuddhismThe second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.
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.
1985, Alastair Lamb, “Introduction”, in India and Tibet, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page vSynonyms: Tashi Lama
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.
Origin
- Tibetanཔན་ཆེན་བླ་མ
- EnglishPanchen Lama
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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Catalan Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Chinese Mandarin 班禪喇嘛 /班禅喇嘛, 班禪額爾德尼 /班禅额尔德尼
- 班禪喇嘛 /班禅喇嘛 (bānchán lǎma)second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
- 班禪額爾德尼 /班禅额尔德尼 (bānchán'é'ěrdéní)second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Czech Pančhenlama
- Pančhenlamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Danish Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Dutch Panchen lama
- Panchen lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Esperanto Panĉen-lamao
- Panĉen-lamaosecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Estonian Pantšen-laama
- Pantšen-laamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Finnish Panchen-lama
- Panchen-lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
French Panchen-lama
- Panchen-lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
German Penchen Lama
- Penchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Hindi पंचेन लामा
- पंचेन लामा (pañcen lāmā)second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Hungarian Panchen Láma
- Panchen Lámasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Indonesian Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Italian Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Japanese パンチェン・ラマ
- パンチェン・ラマsecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Korean 판첸 라마
- 판첸 라마second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Lithuanian Pančen Lama
- Pančen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Norwegian Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Polish panczenlama
- panczenlamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Portuguese Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Russian Па́нчен-ла́ма
- Па́нчен-ла́ма (Pánčen-láma)second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Spanish Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Swedish Panchen lama
- Panchen lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Tagalog Panchen Lama
- Panchen Lamasecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Urdu پنچن لاما
- پنچن لاماsecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Vietnamese Ban-thiền Lạt-ma
- Ban-thiền Lạt-masecond-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Cite this entry
Panchen Lama. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Panchen%20Lama
“Panchen Lama.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Panchen%20Lama. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Panchen Lama,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Panchen%20Lama.
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