Panchen Lama

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

Tibetan པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ. From Sanskrit पण्डित ("scholar") + Tibetan ཆེན་པོ ("big") + Tibetan བླ་མ.

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