Tibetan & Bhutanese names
20 names from the Tibetan & Bhutanese naming tradition, each with its meaning, origin, pronunciation and how it is seen around the world.
- DawaUnisexFrom Tibetan ཟླ་བ, "moon".
- DechenUnisexFrom Tibetan བདེ་ཆེན, "great happiness".
- DorjiUnisexFrom Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ, "thunderbolt, diamond", the vajra of Buddhist ritual.
- GyatsoBoyTibetan for "ocean", from rgya mtsho.
- JamyangUnisexFrom Tibetan འཇམ་དབྱངས, "gentle voice": 'jam "gentle, soft" + dbyangs "melody, voice".
- JigmeUnisexFrom Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད, "fearless": literally "without fear".
- KarmaUnisexFrom Sanskrit कर्म (karma), "action, deed", the Buddhist principle that actions shape what follows.
- KunleyUnisexFrom Tibetan ཀུན་ལེགས, "all goodness": kun "all, every" + legs "good, proper".
- KunzangUnisexFrom Tibetan kun, "all", and bzang, "good": altogether good, or ever excellent.
- LhamoUnisexTibetan for "goddess", from lha, "god, deity", and the feminine ending mo.
- NgawangUnisexFrom Tibetan ngag, "speech", and dbang, "power": commanding or powerful speech.
- NorbuBoyTibetan for "jewel" or "gem", from nor, "wealth", and bu, a diminutive ending.
- PassangUnisexExplained either as a Tibetan day-name for someone born on a Friday, or, in some name references, as "good, excellent".
- PemaUnisexThe Tibetan form of Padma, Sanskrit for "lotus".
- PhuntsoUnisexA Bhutanese spelling of Phuntsok, Tibetan for "perfection" or "abundance".
- SonamUnisexTibetan for "merit" or "good karma": the Buddhist idea of fortune earned through virtuous deeds.
- TashiUnisexFrom Tibetan bkra shis (བཀྲ་ཤིས), "auspiciousness" or "good fortune".
- TenzinUnisexFrom Tibetan bstan 'dzin (བསྟན་འཛིན), "one who holds the teaching", i.e. "holder of the doctrine".
- TsheringUnisexFrom Tibetan tshe ring (ཚེ་རིང), "long life", joining tshe "life" and ring "long".
- WangchukUnisexFrom Tibetan dbang phyug (དབང་ཕྱུག), "powerful" or "mighty", literally "possessing power".