དགེ་བཤེས

Dzongkha

Noun

དགེ་བཤེས (dge bshes)

  1. Buddhist scholar
  2. learned Buddhist teacher
  3. philosopher
  4. person who holds a PhD degree
  5. person who holds a (Tibetan) Geshe academic degree

Tibetan

Etymology

Calque of Pali kalyāṇa-mitta, from དགེ (dge, “virtue, merit”) +‎ བཤེས (bshes, “friend”).

Pronunciation

Noun

དགེ་བཤེས • (dge bshes)

  1. geshe (title for a Tibetan Buddhist monk)

Descendants

  • English: geshe
  • Dzongkha: དགེ་བཤེས (dge bshes)
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