List of Dalai Lamas

Dalai Lama as temporal ruler of Tibet
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14th Dalai Lama
Style	His Holiness
Residence	Potala Palace Norbulingka
Seat	Lhasa
Term length	Life tenure
Formation	1642
First holder	5th Dalai Lama
Final holder	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 as such by the majority of the Tibetan people. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

List

Title	Portrait	Name (Lifespan)	Tibetan Wylie transliteration	Dalai Lama from	Dalai Lama until
1st Dalai Lama		Gedun Drupa (1391–1474)	དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ། dge 'dun grub pa	N/A	1474
2nd Dalai Lama		Gedun Gyatso (1475–1542)	དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ། dge-'dun rgya-mtsho	N/A	1542
3rd Dalai Lama		Sonam Gyatso (1543–1588)	བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ bsod nams rgya mtsho	1578	1588
4th Dalai Lama		Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)	ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ yon tan rgya mtsho	1601	1617
5th Dalai Lama		Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617–1682)	ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho	1642	1682
6th Dalai Lama		Tsangyang Gyatso (1683–1706)	ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ tshangs-dbyangs rgya-mtsho	1697	1706
7th Dalai Lama		Kelzang Gyatso (1708–1757)	བསྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ bskal bzang rgya mtsho	1720	1757
8th Dalai Lama		Jamphel Gyatso (1758–1804)	འཇམ་དཔལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ 'jam dpal rgya mtsho	1762	1804
9th Dalai Lama		Lungtok Gyatso (1805–1815)	ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ lung rtogs rgya mtsho	1810	6 March 1815
10th Dalai Lama		Tsultrim Gyatso (1816–1837)	ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ tshul khrim rgya mtsho	1826	30 September 1837
11th Dalai Lama		Khedrup Gyatso (1838–1856)	མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ mkhas grub rgya mtsho	1842	31 January 1856
12th Dalai Lama		Trinley Gyatso (1857–1875)	འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ། 'phrin las rgya mtsho	1860	25 April 1875
13th Dalai Lama		Thubten Gyatso (1876–1933)	ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ thub bstan rgya mtsho	31 July 1879	17 December 1933
14th Dalai Lama		Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935)	བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho	22 February 1940 (de jure)	Incumbent
				17 November 1950 (de facto) [4]

See also

• List of Panchen Lamas
• List of rulers of Tibet

References

1. Stein 1972, p. 85.
2. Chapman, F. Spencer. (1940). Lhasa: The Holy City, p. 127. Readers Union Ltd. London.
3. Mullin 2001, p. 276.
4. "Chronology of Events". His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Retrieved 19 September 2025.

Bibliography

• Stein, R. A. (1972). Tibetan civilization ([English ed.]. ed.). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. ISBN   0-8047-0901-7.
• Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, NM. ISBN   1-57416-092-3.

External links

• List of Dalai Lamas 1–13 with related data and complete peer-reviewed biographies on The Treasury of Lives