Yeshe (Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་, Wylie: ye-shes, ZYPY: Yêxê) is a Tibetan term meaning wisdom and is analogous to jnana in Sanskrit.^[1] The word appears for example in the title of the Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo, a Vajrayana Buddhist sacred scripture that records oral teachings of Padmasambhava in the 9th century, and in the name of Yeshe Walmo, a deity of the Tibetan religion of Bon. It is used as a unisex given name by Tibetans and Bhutanese people, also spelled Yeshey,^[2] Yeshay,^[3] or Yeshi.^[4]

People with this name include:

Religious figures

• Yeshe De (Jnanasutra, fl. 5th–6th centuries), a Tibetan Vajrayana Dzogchenpa who was a disciple of Sri Singha
• Yeshe Tsogyal (757–817), a semi-mythical female deity or figure of enlightenment (dakini) in Tibetan Buddhism
• Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (9th century), one of the twenty-five principal students of Guru Padmasambhava
• Yeshe-Ö (c. 959–1040), the first notable lama-king in Tibet
• Yeshe Rinchen (1248–1294), Imperial Preceptor (Dishi) of the Yuan dynasty
• Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama (1663–1737)
• Yeshe Dorje (1676–1702), the eleventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism
• Lobsang Palden Yeshe, 6th Panchen Lama (1738–1780), of Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet
• Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984), Tibetan lama who, while exiled in Nepal, co-founded Kopan Monastery
• Yeshe Losal Rinpoche (born 1943), lama in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, abbott of the Samye Ling Monastery, Scotland

Politicians

• Sanggyai Yexe (1917–2008), Chinese Communist Party official
• Yeshey Zimba (born 1952), Bhutanese politician, former Prime Minister
• Yeshey Penjor (born c. 1964), Bhutanese politician
• Yeshey Dem (fl. 2018), Bhutanese politician

Sportspeople

• Yeshey Gyeltshen (born 1983), Bhutanese footballer
• Yeshey Dorji (born 1989), Bhutanese footballer

Other

• Yeshi Dhonden (1927–2019), practitioner of Tibetan traditional medicine
• Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (born 1952), Indian writer from Arunachal Pradesh
• Yeshe Choesang (born 1974), India-based journalist