མཁན་པོ་

JH-ENG

preceptor; abbot; professor; scholar

JH-OE

{C}preceptor

JH-SKT, YOGA

upAdhyAya

JH-SKT

{C}*

OT

[296] ... 1) las kyi 'go byed dam byed pa po/ ... snyan ngag mkhan po/ ... 2) (upAd+huyaH) rab byung dang/ bsnyen rdzogs kyi sdom pa 'bogs mkhan/ ... grwa sa'i mkhan po/ ...

JH-C

Comment: This word often means "abbot," but it also refers to someone versed in a topic.

JV

learned elders, abbot, professor employed to teach, head of a monastery, 1 of gnas pa dgu, abbot, preceptor, master of initiation, usually means abbot of a Buddhist monastery

IW

1) Las kyi 'go byed dam byed pa po; 2) up'adhuya, bestower of rab byung and bsnyen rdzogs vows, khenpo, abbot, up dyaya, scholar, pa ita, professor, very learned one, ecclesiastical teacher, head of a monastery, preceptor (during an ordination ceremony), preceptorship, proficiency (in spiritual practice), the doer (of a certain action) TSE

RB

scholar-abbot; abbot (monastic)

RY

khenpo. A title for one who has completed the major course of studies of about ten years' duration of the traditional branches of Buddhist philosophy, logic, Vinaya and so forth. Can also refer to the abbot of a monastery or the preceptor from whom one receives ordination. Upadhyaya, Preceptor. A teacher, in certain instructional or ritual functions such as advising a translator or giving ordination. Khenpo. A title for one who has completed the major course of studies of about ten years' duration of the traditional branches of Buddhist philosophy, logic, Vinaya and so forth. Can also refer to the abbot of a monastery or the preceptor from whom one receives ordination. preceptor [thd]. 1) abbot, scholar, pandita, pundit, scholar-abbot; professor, monastic abbot very learned one ecclesiastical teacher. 2) abbot, Skt. upadyaya, head of a monastery, preceptor [during an ordination ceremony], preceptorship. 3) proficiency [in spiritual practice]. 4) the doer [of a certain action]. Preceptor, upadhyaya. Principal officiator at the ordination of a monk or nun