mkhan chen

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མཁན་ཆེན
mah pa ita, great learned one/ scholar, great preceptor/ abbot, title of a high lama, political position of religious head, professor, buddha 1) in a school khri 'dzin che gras; 2) Tibetan govt. religious high rank) [IW]

archbishop, great abbot [JV]

1) mahapandita, great learned one / scholar. 2) great preceptor / abbot, title of a high lama. 3) political position of religious head. 4) professor. 5) epithet of Buddha [RY]

Great Khenpo [RY]