Rinpoche
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Rinpoche, also spelled Rimpoche (), is an honorific term used in the Tibetan language. It literally means "precious one", and may refer to a person, place, or thing—like the words "gem" or "jewel" (Sanskrit: Ratna).
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- Tibetan Buddhism
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Rinpoche, also spelled Rimpoche (), is an honorific term used in the Tibetan language. It literally means "precious one", and may refer to a person, place, or thing—like the words "gem" or "jewel" (Sanskrit: Ratna).
The word consists of rin (value), po (nominalizing suffix) and chen (big).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rinpoche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.