mkhan po

mkhan po

A personal preceptor and teacher. Also In Tibet, the translation {mkhan po} also came to mean a learned scholar, the equivalent of a paṇḍita.

A personal preceptor and teacher. In Tibet, it has also come to mean a learned scholar, the equivalent of a paṇḍita, but that is not the intended meaning in the Kāraṇḍavyūha.

A personal preceptor and teacher. In Tibet, the translation {mkhan po} also came to mean a learned scholar, the equivalent of a paṇḍita.
preceptor

An office decreed by the Buddha so that aspirants would not have to receive ordination from the Buddha in person. The Buddha identified two types: those who grant entry into the renunciate order and those who grant ordination.

One who presides over the monastic ordination ceremony of new monks.

Teacher, (monastic) preceptor; "having approached him, one studies from him" (upetyādhīyate asmāt).

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