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Panchen Lama


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A Tibetan lama ranking next after the Dalai Lama. The name comes from Tibetan panchen, abbreviation of pandi-tachen-po ‘great learned one’. The Panchen Lama identifies the new Dalai Lama.

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Panchen Lama
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in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2) Length: 31 words
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in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev) Length: 324 words
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in A Dictionary of Buddhism Length: 129 words

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