Save Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Tibetan, Bhutanese Scripts ཚེ་བརྟན(Tibetan) Meaning & History From Tibetan ཚེ་བརྟན (tshe-brtan) meaning "stable life, tenacious life", derived from ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and བརྟན (brtan) meaning "stable, firm, steadfast".