rinpoche

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noun

A title warranting great respect, prefixed to the names of Tibetan Buddhists.

OriginTibetan རིན་པོ་ཆེ →
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Meanings

nounrinpoche (plural rinpoches)

plural rinpoches

  1. TibetanBuddhismA title warranting great respect, prefixed to the names of Tibetan Buddhists.

Origin

  1. Tibetanརིན་པོ་ཆེ
  2. Englishrinpoche

From Tibetan རིན་པོ་ཆེ (rin po che).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 寧波車 /宁波车
  • 寧波車 /宁波车 (ning⁴ bo¹ ce¹)a title
Chinese Mandarin 仁波切, 仁寶哲 /仁宝哲
  • 仁波切 (rénbōqiē)a title
  • 仁寶哲 /仁宝哲 (rénbǎozhé)a title
Finnish rinpoche, uudestisyntynyt
  • rinpochea title
  • uudestisyntynyta title
Thai รินโปเช
  • รินโปเชa title

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

prochein
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MLA

“rinpoche.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rinpoche. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rinpoche,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rinpoche.

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