Tibetan Custom of Giving Names

As soon as you step onto this mysterious land ,you will be immediately attracted by the brilliant Tibetan culture and the unique, mysterious customs of the highland. Names are important to everyone,so as to Tibetan people.Explore Tibet Team., a professional Tibet travel agency, introduces how Tibetans choose a name for their child.

Buddhism plays an important role in Tibetan’s daily lives, even reflect in the name of Tibetan people.Tibetan people choose names with an auspicious meaning for children.Traditionally,there are mainly two ways of giving children names.The first way is just the parents name for their children.The second one is to invite the great lama to name the child, which is quite popular in Tibet nowadays. When the baby is three days old,the Tibetans will often apply for the Dalai Lama to provide names for their children.Tibetan people believe that those name are blessed things,which can be a combination of religious power and mercies from the lama.
The names will often include an element of Dalai Lama’s own name. For example, nowadays, many people request the 14th Dalai Lama to give names to their children. So there are many boys and girls whose first name is “Tenzin”, the 14th Dalai Lama’s first name. When people go to the Dalai Lama, they will be given a name written on a thread of blessed cloth.The families will express their gratitude to Dalai Lama for giving them so good a child, and say they will bring him up to be an great man or a gentle girl.
Just like the all parents in the world, they hope their children with an auspicious beginning in life.Comes and experience this magical world of culture with Explore Tibet Team.