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Gyatso
Given Name
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Ocean |
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Tibetan |
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All pages beginning with Gyatso |
Gyatso (Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ་) is a Tibetan personal name meaning "ocean". The Tibetan script is an Abugida of Indic origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Ladakhi language Tibetan civilization boasts a rich culture Tibetan culture is greatly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism which is reflected through arts and ritual practices Tibetan Buddhist An ocean (from Greek, ''Okeanos'' (Oceanus) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the Hydrosphere. It is also written Rgya-mtsho in Wylie transliteration, Gyaco in Tibetan Pinyin, Gyatsho in Tournadre Simplified Phonetic Transcription, and Gyatso in THDL Simplified Phonetic Transcription. The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language Typewriter. Tibetan pinyin is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in the People's Republic of China. The THDL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan (or THDL Phonetic Transcription for short is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan Its pronunciation in the Lhasa dialect is [càtsʰo] or [càmtsʰo]. In accordance with the latter pronunciation, it can also be spelled "Gyamtso" in English.
Notable persons whose names include "Gyatso" include:
- Each Dalai Lama, other than the 1st, has had Gyatso as the second word of his personal name; for instance, the current Dalai Lama is named Tenzin Gyatso. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people according to Tibetan Buddhism. Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub ( 6 July 1935 in Qinghai) He is the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile See the list of Dalai Lamas;
- Chödrak Gyatso, the 7th Karmapa;
- Chögyam Trungpa (Chögyam is short for Chögyi Gyamtso), Buddhist teacher;
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT);
- Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso, a Karma Kagyu lama;
- Palden Gyatso, a monk who served thirty-three years as a political prisoner
- Thubten Gyatso, an Australian Gelug monk. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people according to Tibetan Buddhism. Chödrak Gyatso (1454–1506 also Chödrag Gyamtso, was the seventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. The Karmapa (officially His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa ( Tibetan Chögyam Trungpa (February 1939 &ndash April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist Meditation master scholar teacher poet artist and a Trungpa Kelsang Gyatso is a Buddhist Monk, Gelug teacher (scholar and author of 21 Buddhist books based on the works of Buddha Shakyamuni and Je The New Kadampa Tradition (NKT is a global Buddhist tradition founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in England in 1991 Karma Kagyu ( or Kamtsang, is the largest lineage within the Kagyu school one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Palden Gyatso (born 1933 in Panam Tibet is a Buddhist monk who was born in Tibet in 1933 Thubten Gyatso (formerly Adrian Feldmann) was ordained by Lama Thubten Yeshe in the 1970's and was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Gelug
Fictional characters
- Monk Gyatso is a character in the American cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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