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

• Old Tibetan: /*dɡe.pɕes/
• Lhasa: /ke˩˨.ɕe˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*dɡe.pɕes/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ge^v-xe^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ke˩˨.ɕe˥˨/

Noun

དགེ་བཤེས • (dge bshes)

1. geshe (title for a Tibetan Buddhist monk)

Descendants

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