Tenzin

Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Tibetan, Bhutanese
Scripts བསྟན་འཛིན(Tibetan)
Pronounced Pron. TEHN-TSEEN(Tibetan) tehn-ZIN(English)  [key·IPA]

Meaning & History

From Tibetan བསྟན་འཛིན (bstan-'dzin) meaning "upholder of teachings". This is one of the given names of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1935-).

Related Names

VariantTenzing(Tibetan)
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Entry updated June 9, 2023