Khando is from the Tibetan མཁའ་འགྲོ (mkha'-'gro) — sky-goer — Tibetan rendition of the Sanskrit ḍākinī (foundational feminine wisdom being). A modern American baby name in the broader Tibetan-Buddhist heritage aesthetic. Khando in Tibetan Buddhism refers to the foundational dakini — female embodiments of enlightened wisdom and one of the foundational figures in the Tibetan Buddhist tantric tradition. Central to the foundational Vajrayana lineages — every Tibetan Buddhist tantric practice invokes the dakinis. Foundational dakinis include Yeshe Tsogyal (757-817 CE, Padmasambhava's foundational female consort + first Tibetan Buddhist enlightened woman) and Machig Labdrön (1055-1149, founder of the foundational Chöd lineage). Foundational figure in modern Tibetan Buddhist feminist scholarship.
Featured throughout Tibetan-Buddhist heritage.
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Khando reduces to three.