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Pema (
Tibetan : པད་མ or པདྨ ;
Wylie : pad ma ) is a
Tibetan name meaning "
lotus ", which originated as a
loanword from
Sanskrit
padma .
[1]
[2] People who have this name as one of their given names
[3] include:
Buddhist teachers and leaders
Pema Lingpa (1450–1521), Bhutanese saint
Pema Rigdzin, 1st Dzogchen Rinpoche (1625–1697), first Dzogchen Rinpoche of Tibet
Nyala Pema Dündul (1816–1872), teacher of Dzogchen and Tantric Buddhism in Eastern Tibet
Pema Trinle (1874–1950), teacher of the Sakya tradition
Gomchen Pema Chewang Tamang (1918–1966), Sikkimese Buddhist scholar
Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, 1936), American nun
Pema Tönyö Nyinje (born 1954), the 12th Tai Situpa
Jigmet Pema Wangchen (born 1963), the
12th Gyalwang Drukpa
Royalty
Sportspeople
Other
See also
References