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
Lotus may refer to:
Plants
*Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly:
** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae
**Lotus flower, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant also ...
", 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 t ...
from
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominalization, nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cul ...
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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 s ...
''. People who have this name as one of their given names
[Note that Tibetan names generally do not have surnames. See e.g. ] include:
Buddhist teachers and leaders
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Pema Lingpa (1450–1521), Bhutanese saint
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Nyala Pema Dündul
Nyala Pema Dündul (1816–1872), also known as Terton Nyala Pema Duddul, was a teacher of Dzogchen and Tantric Buddhism in Eastern Tibet
Kham (; )
is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and ...
(1816–1872), teacher of Dzogchen and Tantric Buddhism in Eastern Tibet
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Pema Trinle (1874–1950), teacher of the Sakya tradition
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Gomchen Pema Chewang Tamang
Gomchen Pema Chewang Tamang (1918–13 March 1966) was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via t ...
(1918–1966), Sikkimese Buddhist scholar
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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
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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 Pal ...
(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 (new) schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In Drukpa, druk means 'dragon' which is a symbol of love and peace. ...
Royalty
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Tsundue Pema Lhamo (1886–1922), first queen consort of Bhutan
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Pema Dechen (1918–1991), third queen consort of Bhutan
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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 youn ...
, queen consort of Bhutan since 2011
Sportspeople
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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
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Pema Chophel (born 1981), Bhutanese footballer
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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 s ...
(born 1985), Bhutanese footballer
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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
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(born 1986), Bhutanese footballer
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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
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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
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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 Tibet ...
, sister of the 14th Dalai Lama
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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
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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
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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 from 2013 to 2018.
References
Members of the National Council (B ...
(born ), Bhutanese politician
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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 gov ...
(born 1979), Indian politician, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
See also
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Padma (disambiguation)
References
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