Save Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Tibetan, Bhutanese Scripts སངས་རྒྱས(Tibetan) Pronounced Pron. /saŋ˥˥.cɛː˥˨/(Tibetan) [key·simplify] Meaning & History From Tibetan སངས་རྒྱས (sangs-rgyas) referring to the Buddha, derived from སངས (sangs) meaning "purified, cleansed" and རྒྱས (rgyas) meaning "extended, spread".