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Gedun Gyatso
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Dalai Lama of Tibet (1476-1542)
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Gedun Gyatso, born Pema Dorje in 1476 in Ngamring County, was a male politician and writer who held the position of Dalai Lama. He was a citizen of the Chinese Empire and adhered to Tibetan Buddhism, specifically the Gelug religious order.
He died in 1542 at Drepung Monastery. Gedun Gyatso was a student of Panchen Sonam Dragpa, Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, and the 3rd Panchen Lama. His literary output includes seven works, such as *Mystical verses of a mad Dalai Lama* and *The steps of visualisation for the three essential moments*.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1475 births, 1542 deaths and 15th-century Tibetan people.
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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
- Predecessor
- Gedun Drupa
- Successor
- Sonam Gyatso
- Chinese
- 根敦嘉措
- Hanyu pinyin
- gēn dūn jiā cuò
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Chinese Empire
- Place of birth
- Ngamring County
- Place of death
- Drepung Monastery
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- Dalai Lama
- Religion
- Gelug
- Image
- Second Dalai Lama.jpg
- Religious order
- Gelug
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- Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama
- date of birth
- 1476-01-01
- date of death
- 1542-01-01
- birth name
- Pema Dorje
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gedun Gyatso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.