Samten is from the Tibetan བསམ་གཏན་ (bsam gtan — meditation, deep concentration) — from foundational Sanskrit dhyāna (Buddhist meditative absorption). A modern American baby name in the broader Tibetan-Buddhist heritage aesthetic. Samten is one of the foundational Tibetan unisex names — central to traditional Vajrayana Buddhist heritage. The foundational Tibetan bsam gtan refers to the foundational fourth perfection (pāramitā) of foundational Buddhist meditation + central to foundational Tibetan monastic practice. Notable bearer: Samten Karmay (born 1936) — foundational Tibetan-French scholar of foundational Bön + Tibetan religious studies + foundational Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Paris emeritus + author of foundational The Arrow and the Spindle: Studies in History, Myths, Rituals and Beliefs in Tibet (1998); Samten Gyaltsen Karmay — foundational founding figure of foundational International Association for Tibetan Studies.
Featured throughout Tibetan heritage.
Samten reduces to one.