Phrase guide

Panchen Lama

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Tibetan

Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Tashi Lama

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

the lama next in rank to the Dalai Lama

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: lama

History

Etymology

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).

Across languages

Translations

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 班禪喇嘛 /班禅喇嘛 (bānchán lǎma) — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 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 — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Danish: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Dutch: Panchen lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Esperanto: Panĉen-lamao — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Estonian: Pantšen-laama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Finnish: Panchen-lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • French: Panchen-lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • German: Penchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Hindi: पंचेन लामा (pañcen lāmā) — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Hungarian: Panchen Láma — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Indonesian: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Italian: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Japanese: パンチェン・ラマ — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Korean: 판첸 라마 — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Lithuanian: Pančen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Mongolian: Банчин богд (Bančin bogd) — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Mongolian: Банчин лам (Bančin lam) — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Nepali: पञ्चेन लामा (pañcen lāmā) — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Norwegian: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Polish: panczenlama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Portuguese: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Russian: Па́нчен-ла́ма (Pánčen-láma) — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Slovene: Pančen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Upper Sorbian: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Spanish: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Swedish: Panchen lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Tagalog: Panchen Lama — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Tibetan: པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ (pan chen bla ma) — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Urdu: پنچن لاما — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Vietnamese: Ban-thiền Lạt-ma — second-highest ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism