Gyatso or Gyamco (), is a
Tibetan personal name meaning "
ocean". 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 THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan (or ''THL Phonetic Transcription'' for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan language.
It was created by David Germano and Nicolas Tournadre and was published on ...
. In the Lhasa dialect, it is pronounced or . 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. See the
list of Dalai Lamas
This is a list of Dalai Lamas of Tibet. There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama.
There has also been one non-recognised Dalai Lama, Ngawang Yeshe Gyatso (declared in 1707), by Lha-bzang Khan as the "true" 6th Dalai Lama â ...
;
*
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
Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche () is a prominent scholar yogi in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He teaches widely in the West, often through songs of realization, his own as well as those composed by Milarepa and other masters of the ...
, a
Karma Kagyu lama;
*
Palden Gyatso, a monk who served thirty-three years as a political prisoner
*
Desi Sangye Gyatso, 17th century political figure
*
Geshe Sherab Gyatso
Geshe Sherab Gyatso (; ) (1884–1968), was a Tibetan religious teacher and a politician who served in the Chinese government in the 1950s. After living in Lhasa for a period, he fell from favor with the establishment there in the 1930s and return ...
, 20th century Communist politician
*
Thubten Gyatso, an Australian Gelug monk.
*Monk Gyatso, a character from the
Nickelodeon cartoon ''
Avatar: The Last Airbender''.
Other entities with a similar name:
*
Gyamco, village in Tibet
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