name
Dechen
DAY-chen
ˈdeɪtʃɛnListen
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Dechen
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Tibetan (Tibet/India)
- Meaning
- a beautiful Tibetan name meaning great bliss or supreme happiness, drawn from the Buddhist understanding of bde chen — the profound, unconditional joy that arises from realising the nature of mind and releasing attachment to the causes of suffering; in Tibetan Buddhist cosmology, Dechen Ling — the Land of Great Bliss — is the pure realm of Amitabha Buddha, a place of spiritual perfection where enlightenment is easily attained; to name a child Dechen expresses the highest aspiration a Tibetan Buddhist parent can hold: that their child will find not merely worldly happiness but the deep and lasting joy of spiritual realisation; the name is used across all Tibetan communities in exile and in the homeland
- Gender
- unisex
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