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Dalai Lama (UK: / ˈ d æ l aɪ ˈ l ɑː m ə /, US: / ˈ d ɑː l aɪ /; [1] [2] Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) is a title given by Altan Khan, the first Shunyi King of Ming China, in A.D. 1578 at Yanghua Monastery to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant ...
14th Dalai Lama. Abolished. 23 May 1951. (Seventeen Point Agreement) This is a list of Dalai Lamas of Tibet. There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama. There has also been one non-recognised Dalai Lama, Ngawang Yeshe Gyatso (declared in 1707), by Lha-bzang Khan as the "true" 6th Dalai Lama – however, he was never accepted ...
TitleName (lifespan)Tibetan Wylie TransliterationDalai Lama FromGedun Drupa (1391–1474)དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ། dge 'dun grub ...N/AGedun Gyatso (1475–1542)དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ། dge-'dun ...1486Sonam Gyatso (1543–1588)བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ bsod nams rgya ...1578Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ yon tan rgya ...1601Sep 15, 2022 · The Dalai Lama was born Lhamo Thondup on July 6, 1935 in Taktser, China. At age 15, he assumed political power of Tibet as the Dalai Lama. The People's Republic of China invaded that same year ...
- Gedun Drupa. (1391–1474) ?- 1474.
- Gedun Gyatso. (1475–1542) 1492-1542.
- Sonam Gyatso. (1543–1588) 1578-1588.
- Yonten Gyatso. (1589–1617) 1601-1617.
- Gedun Drupa. The First Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa, was born in 1391 in Gyurmey Rupa, near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet to Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha Kyi, a nomadic family.
- Gedun Gyatso. The Second Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso was born in 1475 in Tanag Sekme, near Shigatse in the Tsang region of central Tibet to Kunga Gyaltso and Machik Kunga Pemo, a farming family.
- Sonam Gyatso. The Third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso was born in 1543 at Tolung, near Lhasa, to Namgyal Drakpa and Pelzom Bhuti, a rich family.
- Yonten Gyatso. The Fourth Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso, was born in 1589 in Mongolia to the Chokar tribal chieftain Tsultrim Choeje, who was the grandson of Altan Khan, and his second wife PhaKhen Nula.
The name given the Dalai Lama when he was born on July 6, 1935, was Lhamo Thondup. He came from a very small village in northeast Tibet called Taktser. At that time there were only twenty families living in all of Taktser. "Dalai Lama" is a name of honor and respect that was given to him by the Buddhist monks of Tibet.
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Aug 28, 2024 · 14th Dalai Lama (born July 6, 1935, Taktser, Tibet) is the title of the Tibetan Buddhist monk Tenzin Gyatso, the first Dalai Lama to become a global figure, largely for his advocacy of Buddhism and of the rights of the people of Tibet. Despite his fame, he dispensed with much of the pomp surrounding his office, describing himself as a “simple Buddhist monk.”
