Oh dear, don't I look foolish.dzoki wrote:Haha, it was a joke. I doubt any lama would give such a name.dharmagoat wrote:Ew, I would ask for my money back.dzoki wrote:CHABKHANG TSOGPO - dirty toilet
I can see why you choose not to use it.
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Somebody knows what Padma Dechen means?
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Drawing on my limited knowledge of Tibetan, a name like Sangye Chophel (Buddha + Flourishing of Dharma) might be abbreviated to Sangcho, which sounds like the word for "toilet." ("Chapsang" would be the honorific, if that is not too surreal that there should be an honorific for "toilet".)
More likely a lineage marker. For example, everybody ordained by Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama gets "Tenzin" as part of his ordination name. Karma Kagyu disciples apparently all get the name "Karma." etc.The Lama who gave me my name was a GYATSO too. Does the last name ever function as a kind of 'family name'?
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In my limited experience, when a Refuge ceremony is given in public it's the first name that designates the lineage the presiding master belongs to, rather than the second or last name. So Karma Kagyupas would be "Karma ______," Drikung Kagyupas are, by and large, "Konchog _____," and most of the Gelukpas I know are "Lobsang _____."Alfredo wrote:More likely a lineage marker. For example, everybody ordained by Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama gets "Tenzin" as part of his ordination name. Karma Kagyu disciples apparently all get the name "Karma." etc.The Lama who gave me my name was a GYATSO too. Does the last name ever function as a kind of 'family name'?
GYATSO is pretty common as a name in general, but even more so with it being the second element in the Dalai Lama's name, Tenzin Gyatso. As Alfredo mentioned, HH gives TENZIN as the first part of ordination names (i.e. to monks and nuns). HH Penor Rinpoche (late head of the Palyul Nyingma lineage) gave THUBTEN to those who took ordination with him.
I've read in numerous places that the way Tibetans put together their names has led to quite a bit of consternation on the part of immigration and naturalization officials. I think the concept of a family name isn't really prevalent in Tibetan culture, but there certainly are clans which predate Vajrayana entering. Most biographies of high lamas mention which clan they're from, though I'm not exactly sure how clans figure into the identities of regular Tibetans.
Imagine how big they thought the Rinpoche family was!
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དྲིན་ཆེན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མགར་ཆེན་ཁྲི་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཁྱེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་མཁས་གྲུབ་ཀརྨ་ཆགས་མེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ། ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོཿ
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I only took refuge with HHPR but also received Thubten. I'm pretty sure that he gave Thubten to both those who took refuge and those who took ordination.Karma Jinpa wrote: HH Penor Rinpoche (late head of the Palyul Nyingma lineage) gave THUBTEN to those who took ordination with him.
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Zen Master Seung Sahn said, “That’s simple. Atomic bombs come from the mind that likes this and doesn’t like that.”
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
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Yes, I also received Thubten from Penor Rinpoche in my refuge name. Not just for ordination.kirtu wrote:I only took refuge with HHPR but also received Thubten. I'm pretty sure that he gave Thubten to both those who took refuge and those who took ordination.Karma Jinpa wrote: HH Penor Rinpoche (late head of the Palyul Nyingma lineage) gave THUBTEN to those who took ordination with him.
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Hi .. I recently joined this forum and wondering if anyone can help me with the meaning of my Tibetan names?
Padme Chime Lhamo
many blessings,
Runningalong
Padme Chime Lhamo
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Hello
I've just recently taken refuge and was given the name Thubten Lamzang - does any one what it means.
Thank you
Peace and Blessings
Georgina
I've just recently taken refuge and was given the name Thubten Lamzang - does any one what it means.
Thank you
Peace and Blessings
Georgina
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Teaching of the Muni, Excellent PathAzureblue wrote:Hello
I've just recently taken refuge and was given the name Thubten Lamzang - does any one what it means.
Thank you
Peace and Blessings
Georgina
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Greetings,
What is the translation for dharma name Kalsang Tharpa?
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What is the translation for dharma name Kalsang Tharpa?
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Kalzang = Fortunate Eon (Bhadrakalpa)
Tharpa = Liberation
Tharpa = Liberation
Pema Chophel པདྨ་ཆོས་འཕེལ
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Thank you, pemachophel.
Does the spelling "Tharba" have a different meaning?
Does the spelling "Tharba" have a different meaning?
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My name is Pema Yudron.
I think it means Lotus on a turquoise lake but I'm not sure.
I love that image tho....
I think it means Lotus on a turquoise lake but I'm not sure.
I love that image tho....
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Pema = Lotus
Yudron = Turquoise Lamp
Yudron = Turquoise Lamp
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Hello...great site. Wonder if you would give what Padma Yangzin means? This is how it was written about 25 yrs ago. Thank you.
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Pema Yangzin--depending on spelling in Tibetan, I am going to guess it is "Holder of The Melody of the Lotus." Pema =Lotus, Yang usually is "melody" or "song," and "zin" is usually "holder" or "possessor."
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Maybe this: http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/yongs_'dzin?conebeckham wrote:Yang usually is "melody" or "song," and "zin" is usually "holder" or "possessor."
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche