Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1476
- Died
- 1542
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Commentary on the famed treatise of Tsong-kha-paʼs Drang nges legs bshad snying po on the theory of Neyārtha and Nītārtha, the two truths of Buddhism
- Draṅ ba daṅ ṅes paʼi don rnam par ʼbyed paʼi legs bśad sñiṅ poʼi dgoṅs pa rab tu gsal bar byed paʼi bstan bcos sgron me
- Mystical verses of a mad Dalai Lama
- Rgyal-ba Dge-ʼdun-rgya-mtshoʼi rnam thar źes bya ba bźugs so
- Rje btsun thams cad mkhyen pa Dge-ʼdun-rgya-mtsho dpal bzaṅ poʼi gsuṅ ʼbum
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Key facts
- Title
- 2nd Dalai Lama (posthumous designation)
- Born
- Sangye Phel , 1475, Tanag Segme, Ü-Tsang , Tibet
- Died
- 1542 (aged 66 – 67), Tibet
- Parents
- Kunga Gyaltso (father) Machik Kunga Pemo (mother)
- Religion
- Tibetan Buddhism
Article
Tibetan name Tibetan དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
The 2nd Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: dge-'dun rgya-mtsho, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants") (1475–1542) was also known as Yonten Phuntsok, or Gedun Gyatso Palzangpo. He was ordained at Tashilhunpo Monastery at Shigatse, and later resided at Drepung Monastery in Lhasa. He was posthumously entitled as the 2nd Dalai Lama.