Given name · bo
བསྟན་འཛིན
“teaching”·“take hold of, adhere to”
བསྟན་འཛིན is a unisex given name. It is used in Tibetan.
boWritten in Tibetan script. In English: Tenzin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
བསྟན་འཛིན is built from elements meaning “teaching” and “take hold of, adhere to”.
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How it developed
Built from Gola བསྟན (“teaching”) + འཛིན (“take hold of, adhere to”).
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བསྟན་འཛིན’s family of names
In Tibetan usage, བསྟན་འཛིན has a conventional equivalent in the English form TENZIN.
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