Rinchen

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Rinchen

Gender	Unisex
Language(s)	Tibetan, Mongolian
Origin
Language(s)	Tibetan
Meaning	Treasure
Other names
Alternative spelling	Rinchin, Renchin, Erinchin
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རིན་ཆེན
Wylie	rin chen

Rinchen, meaning "treasure", is a Tibetan name, used by speakers of various Tibetic languages. It is also used as a given name by Mongols, seen as early as the Yuan dynasty. ^[1] As a Mongolian name, it has various spellings such as Rinchin, Renchin, or Erinchin. People with Rinchen as one of their given names, or as a patronymic, include:

Buddhist leaders and teachers

• Rinchen Chok of Ma (fl. 8th century), one of the disciples of Padmasambhava
• Rinchen Zangpo (958–1055), translator of Sanskrit Buddhist texts into Tibetan
• Yeshe Rinchen (1248–1294), Imperial Preceptor at the court of the Yuan dynasty
• Rinchen Gyaltsen (c. 1257–1305), ruler of the Sakya school
• Buton Rinchen Drub (1290–1364), eleventh abbot of Shalu Monastery
• Gendün Rinchen (1926–1997), 69th Je Khenpo of Bhutan
• Sonam Rinchen (1933–2013), teacher of Buddhist philosophy and practice in Dharamshala, India

Mongol nobility

• Rinchinbal Khan (1326–1332), tenth emperor of the Yuan dynasty
• Erinchin Lobsang Tayiji (fl. 1662–1682), prince of the Khalkha federation of Western Mongolia
• Sengge Rinchen (1811–1865), Qing dynasty nobleman and general from Inner Mongolia

Other

• Byambyn Rinchen (1905–1977), Mongolian scholar of linguistics and literature
• Chewang Rinchen (1931–1997), Indian army officer from Ladakh
• Rinchen Lhamo (1901–1929), writer from Kham who settled in the United Kingdom
• Rinchen Barsbold (born 1935), Mongolian paleontologist
• Ngawang Rinchen (born 1984), Chinese actor
• Pema Rinchen (born 1986), Bhutanese footballer
• Rinchen Maarkhane Moktan Tamang (born 2003), Indian MMA Fighter, from Darjeeling.

See also

• Renchinlkhümbe, a sum (district) in Khövsgöl, northern Mongolia
• Rinchen Subtso, a lake in Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
• Rinchenia, a genus of Dinosauria named after Rinchen Barsbold

References

1. Kwanten, Luc (1971). "Tibetan names in the Yüan imperial family". The Mongolia Society Bulletin. 10 (1). JSTOR   43192959.