Jetsun (
Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན།,
Wylie: rje btsun) or Jetsunma (
Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་མ།,
Wylie: rje btsun ma; the "ma" suffix is feminine) is a
Tibetan title meaning "venerable" or "reverend." It is a specific term applied to revered teachers and practitioners of
VajrayanaBuddhism. The title is applied to adepts and learned lamas such as
Jetsun Milarepa. "Je" (
Wylie transliteration: rJe) refers to those of high rank, including kings and nobles; "tsun" (
Wylie transliteration: bTsun) refers to 1) those of noble rank, 2) those who are monastics, or 3) those who combine the three characteristics of being learned, noble, and good. The two together emphasize the honorific while "tsun" applies the term specifically to ecclesiastics.[1]
^Obituary for Geshe Namgyal Wangchen from H-Buddhism H-net
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Jetsun (
Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན།,
Wylie: rje btsun) or Jetsunma (
Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་མ།,
Wylie: rje btsun ma; the "ma" suffix is feminine) is a
Tibetan title meaning "venerable" or "reverend." It is a specific term applied to revered teachers and practitioners of
VajrayanaBuddhism. The title is applied to adepts and learned lamas such as
Jetsun Milarepa. "Je" (
Wylie transliteration: rJe) refers to those of high rank, including kings and nobles; "tsun" (
Wylie transliteration: bTsun) refers to 1) those of noble rank, 2) those who are monastics, or 3) those who combine the three characteristics of being learned, noble, and good. The two together emphasize the honorific while "tsun" applies the term specifically to ecclesiastics.[1]
^Obituary for Geshe Namgyal Wangchen from H-Buddhism H-net
Index of articles associated with the same name
This
article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names). If an
internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.