Pema ( or ) is a

Tibetan name Tibetan names typically consist of two juxtaposed elements. Family names are rare except among those of aristocratic ancestry and then come before the personal name (but diaspora Tibetans living in societies that expect a surname may adopt one). F ...

meaning " lotus", which originated as a

loanword A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language. This is in contrast to cognates, which are words in two or more languages that are similar because th ...

from

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

padma The Padma ( bn, পদ্মা ''Pôdma'') is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for to its confluence with the Meghna River near the Bay of Bengal. The city of Rajshahi is sit ...

''. People who have this name as one of their given namesNote that Tibetan names generally do not have surnames. See e.g. include:

Buddhist teachers and leaders

Pema Lingpa Pema Lingpa or Padma Lingpa (, 1450–1521) was a Bhutanese saint and siddha of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is considered a ''terchen'' or "preeminent tertön" (, discoverer of spiritual treasures) and is considered to be foremost ...

(1450–1521), Bhutanese saint * Nyala Pema Dündul (1816–1872), teacher of Dzogchen and Tantric Buddhism in Eastern Tibet *

Pema Trinle Jetsun Pema Trinle (1874-1950) was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, and was one of only a few women authorized to teach the general and esoteric presentation of the Path and Result in the Sakya The ''Sakya'' (, 'pale earth') school is one of four majo ...

(1874–1950), teacher of the Sakya tradition * Gomchen Pema Chewang Tamang (1918–1966), Sikkimese Buddhist scholar *

Pema Chödrön Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། ''padma chos sgron'' “lotus dharma lamp”; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism an ...

(born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, 1936), American nun *

Pema Tönyö Nyinje Pema Dönyö Nyinje , born 1954 is the 12th Tai Situpa, a tulku in Tibetan Buddhism, and one of the leading figures of the Karma Kagyu school. He is the head of Palpung Monastery. Life Pema Tönyö Nyinje was born in 1954 in the village of Palm ...

(born 1954), the 12th Tai Situpa *Jigmet Pema Wangchen (born 1963), the

12th Gyalwang Drukpa The 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, Jigmet Pema Wangchen (, born 1963), is the head of the Drukpa Lineage school, which is one of the independent Sarma (Tibetan Buddhism), Sarma (new) schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In Drukpa, druk means 'dragon' which is a ...

Royalty

Tsundue Pema Lhamo Ashi Tsundue Pema Lhamo (1886–1922) was the first Queen consort of Bhutan. Early life ''Ashi'' Tsundue Pema Lhamo was born in 1886 in Kurto Khoma, as the daughter of Kunzang Thinley, 18th and 20th '' Dzongpon'' of Thimphu, and his wife, Sangay ...

(1886–1922), first queen consort of Bhutan *

Pema Dechen Ashi Pema Dechen (1918–1991) was the Queen consort of Bhutan. Early life ''Ashi'' Pema Dechen was born in 1918 at Wangducholing Palace to ''Chumed Zhalgno'', ''Dasho'' Jamyang (of the Tamzhing Choji family – also known as the Myo family -) ...

(1918–1991), third queen consort of Bhutan *

Jetsun Pema (born 1990) Jetsun Pema ( dz, རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma, born on 4 June 1990) is the Druk Gyaltsuen ( Dzongkha: Dragon Queen) of Bhutan, as the wife of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. She is currently the young ...

, queen consort of Bhutan since 2011

Sportspeople

Pema Tshering Pema Tshering (born 15 July 1951), is an archer who represented Bhutan internationally. Tshering competed for Bhutan at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he finished 76th in Seoul and finished one pl ...

(born 1951), Bhutanese arche *

Pema Chophel Pema Chophel (born 6 August 1981) is a Bhutanese international footballer, currently playing for Yeedzin. He made his first appearance for the Bhutan national football team The Bhutan national football team represents Bhutan in international ...

(born 1981), Bhutanese footballer *

Pema Dorji (footballer) Pema Dorji ( Dzongkha: དྲུང་འཚོ་པདྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ; 5 July 1985) is the Bhutanese football manager. A former international player, he made his first appearance for the Bhutan national football team in 2005. Pema ...

(born 1985), Bhutanese footballer *

Pema Rinchen Pema Rinchen is a former football player and manager from Bhutan. He plays as a defender. He won the A-Division in 2008, 2010 and 2011 and participated in the AFC President’s Cup as member of the Yeedzin in 2009 and 2011. International ...

(born 1986), Bhutanese footballer *

Pema Diki Sherpa Pema Diki Sherpa ( ne, पेमादिकी शेर्पा) is from Simigau, Gauri Sankar, Dolakha District, Nepalese mountain climber. In 2008 she became the youngest woman to climb Mount Everest and in 2009 she joined the Seven Summits ...

(born 1988), Nepalese mountain climber

Other

Pema Dorji (doctor) Pema Dorji ( dz, དྲུང་འཚོ་པདྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ; 1936-2009) was a Bhutanese doctor (''drungtsho'') of traditional Bhutanese and Tibetan medicine, was the first person to institutionalize traditional medicine in Bhutan. ...

(1936–2009), practitioner of traditional Bhutanese medicine *

Jetsun Pema (born 1940) Jetsun Pema ( Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma; , born 7 July 1940) is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama. For 42 years she was the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) school system for Tibe ...

, sister of the 14th Dalai Lama *

Pema Dhondup Pema Dhondup Gakyil, who is professionally credited as Pema Dhondup, is a Tibetan film director and actor. He directed and produced '' We're No Monks'' (2004) and ''The Man from Kathmandu'' (2019), and he provided voiceovers for Tenzin in the ' ...

(), Nepalese film director *

Pema Tseden Pema Tseden (), also called Wanma Tsaidan (; born December 1969), is a Tibetan film director and screenwriter of Chinese citizenship. He is a member of the China Film Directors' Guild, China Film Association and Chinese Film Literature Association. ...

(born 1969), Chinese film director *

Pema Dakpa Pema Dakpa is a Bhutanese politician who has been a member of the National Council of Bhutan, since May 2018. Previously, he was a member of the National Council of Bhutan The National Council is the upper house of Bhutan's bicameral Parliamen ...

(born ), Bhutanese politician *

Pema Khandu Pema Khandu (born 21 August 1979) is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. He is son of former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Dorjee Khandu. Since assuming office of chief minister in July 2016, he and his govern ...

(born 1979), Indian politician, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

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