Tashi
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Tashi (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་, Wylie: bkra-shis, ZYPY: zhaxi, Lhasa dialect IPA: [ʈáɕiʔ]), also spelt trashi is a Tibetan word meaning "good fortune" or "auspiciousness" which figures prominently in many names of places and people. "Tashi" appears in the names of:
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Monasteries in Tibet
- Tashilhünpo in Shigatse
- Labrang Tashikhyil in Amdo
- Tashichoedzong in Bhutan
People
- The "Tashi Lama" is a title used in older English sources to refer to the Panchen Lama
- Tashi Namgyal (1893–1963), king of Sikkim, 1914–1963
- Guru Tashi, legendary ancestor of the Sikkimese royal family
- Dakpo Tashi Namgyal, 16th century Tibetan scholar
- Ngawang Tashi Bapu (born 1968), musician known as "Lama Tashi"
- any of several individuals named Tashi Tsering
- Tashi Wangdi, official in the Tibetan government-in-exile
- Tashi Peljor (born 1978), Bhutanese Olympic archer
- Tashi Tenzing (born 1965), Sherpa mountaineer
Towns
- Trashigang, administrative center of Trashigang District, Bhutan
- Tashi Yangtse, the administrative center of Tashi Yangtse District, Bhutan
- Tashi, Longyou County (塔石镇), town in Longyou County, Zhejiang, PR China
Other
- Tashi Dor, a peninsula
- Tashi Group, a large privately owned industrial/commercial group in Bhutan
- Tashi (dip), a Meze dish made from tahini, garlic, salt and lemon juice with chopped parsley Garnish
- Tashi Namgyal Academy, a public school in Sikkim
- Tashi Quartet, an ensemble of classical musicians, originally formed in 1973 as "Tashi"
- Tashi, a series of children's books by Anna Fienberg