Gyatso or Gyamco (), is a
Tibetan
Tibetan may mean:
* of, from, or related to Tibet
* Tibetan people, an ethnic group
* Tibetan language:
** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard
** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...
personal name meaning "
ocean
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". It is also written ''Rgya-mtsho'' in
Wylie transliteration
Wylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter. The system is named for the American scholar Turrell V. Wylie, who created the system and published i ...
, 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
Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dal ...
, 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 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...
. 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
The Karmapa (honorific title '' His Holiness the Gyalwa'' ½¢à¾’ྱལ་བ་, Victorious One''Karmapa'', more formally as ''Gyalwang'' ½¢à¾’ྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་, King of Victorious Ones''Karmapa'', and informally as the ' ...
;
*
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
Karma Kagyu (), or Kamtsang Kagyu (), is a widely practiced and probably the second-largest lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The lineage has long-standing monasteries in Tibet, China, Russia, Mon ...
lama;
*
Palden Gyatso
Palden Gyatso (1933, Panam, Tibet – 30 November 2018, Dharamshala, India, bo, དཔལ་ལྡན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ dpal ldan rgya mtsho) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Arrested for protesting during the Chinese invasion of Tibet, he sp ...
, 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
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cartoon ''
Avatar: The Last Airbender''.
Other entities with a similar name:
*
Gyamco, village in Tibet
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