Save Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Tibetan, Bhutanese, Buddhism Scripts བྱམས་པ(Tibetan) Pronounced Pron. /t͡ɕʰam˩˨.pa˥˥/(Tibetan) [key·simplify] Meaning & History From Tibetan བྱམས་པ (byams-pa) meaning "kindness, benevolence". This is the Tibetan name for the bodhisattva Maitreya.