Khenpo
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khenpo (T. mkhan po མཁན་པོ་) is the Tibetan translation for the Sanskrit term upādhyāya, meaning "preceptor" or "religious instructor."[1]
The term is used in two senses:[2]
- in a general sense as a abbot of a monastery or a preceptor who performs certain instructional or ritual functions such as advising a translator or giving ordination
- as 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 (particularly within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism).
Notes
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. upādhyāya
- ↑
mkhan po, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
