Save Gender Masculine Usage Buddhism, Sinhalese Scripts තිස්ස(Sinhala) Pronounced Pron. /ˈt̪is.sə/(Sinhalese) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Pali form of Sanskrit तिष्य (tiṣya) meaning "auspicious, fortunate". This is the name of the twentieth of the twenty-seven buddhas preceding Siddhartha Gautama, as well as the name of a 3rd-century king of Sri Lanka.