List of Dalai Lamas

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Dalai Lama as temporal ruler of Tibet
Emblem of Tibet.svg
Flag of Tibet.svg
Style His Holiness
Residence Potala Palace
Norbulingka
Seat Lhasa
Term length Life tenure
Formation1642
First holder 5th Dalai Lama
Final holder 14th Dalai Lama
Abolished23 May 1951
(Seventeen Point Agreement)

This is a list of Dalai Lamas of Tibet. There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama.

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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

TitlePortraitName
(Lifespan)
Tibetan
Wylie transliteration
Dalai Lama fromDalai Lama until
1st Dalai Lama Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama.jpg Gedun Drupa
(1391–1474)
དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ།
dge 'dun grub pa
N/A1474
2nd Dalai Lama Second Dalai Lama.jpg Gedun Gyatso
(1475–1542)
དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
dge-'dun rgya-mtsho
N/A1542
3rd Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso.jpg Sonam Gyatso
(1543–1588)
བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
bsod nams rgya mtsho
15781588
4th Dalai Lama 4DalaiLama cropped.jpg Yonten Gyatso
(1589–1617)
ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
yon tan rgya mtsho
16011617
5th Dalai Lama 5th Dalai Lama.jpg Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso
(1617–1682)
ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho
16421682
6th Dalai Lama VI Dalai Lama.JPG Tsangyang Gyatso
(1683–1706)
ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ
tshangs-dbyangs rgya-mtsho
16971706
7th Dalai Lama 7th Dalai Lama.jpg Kelzang Gyatso
(1708–1757)
བསྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
bskal bzang rgya mtsho
17201757
8th Dalai Lama Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama - AMNH - DSC06244.JPG Jamphel Gyatso
(1758–1804)
འཇམ་དཔལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ
'jam dpal rgya mtsho
17621804
9th Dalai Lama Lungtok Gyatso.jpg Lungtok Gyatso
(1805–1815)
ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
lung rtogs rgya mtsho
18106 March 1815
10th Dalai Lama No image.png Tsultrim Gyatso
(1816–1837)
ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
tshul khrim rgya mtsho
182630 September 1837
11th Dalai Lama The 11th Dalai Lama, mural in the Utse in Samye.jpg Khedrup Gyatso
(1838–1856)
མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
mkhas grub rgya mtsho
184231 January 1856
12th Dalai Lama Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso.jpg Trinley Gyatso
(1857–1875)
འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
'phrin las rgya mtsho
186025 April 1875
13th Dalai Lama 13thDalaiLama1910.jpg Thubten Gyatso
(1876–1933)
ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
thub bstan rgya mtsho
31 July 187917 December 1933
14th Dalai Lama Dalailama1 20121014 4639.jpg 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

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 18 April 2015.

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