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Trinley Gyatso
Title12th Dalai Lama
Personal
Born(1856-12-28)28 December 1856[1][2]
Lhoka, Ü-Tsang, Tibet, Qing Dynasty
Died25 April 1875(1875-04-25) (aged 18)
Lhasa, Tibet, Qing Dynasty
ReligionTibetan Buddhism
Senior posting
Period in office1860–1875
PredecessorKhedrup Gyatso
SuccessorThubten Gyatso
Chinese name
Chinese成烈嘉措
Tibetan name
Tibetanའཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
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Trinley Gyatso (also spelled Trinle Gyatso and Thinle Gyatso; 28 December 1856 – 25 April 1875) was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

His short life coincided with a time of major political unrest and wars among Tibet's neighbours. Tibet particularly suffered from the weakening of the Qing Dynasty which had previously provided it with some support against the British Empire, which was aiming to influence Tibet as an expansion from its colonisation of India.

He was recognised as a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama in 1858 and enthroned in 1860. During his period of training as a child, Tibet banned Europeans from entering the country because of wars Britain was fighting against Sikkim and Bhutan, both of whom were controlled to a considerable degree by the lamas in Lhasa. These wars were seen as efforts to colonise Tibet—something seen as unacceptable by the lamas. Also, with missionaries threatening to enter Tibet via the Mekong and Salween Rivers, Tibetans tried to emphasize the Qing Dynasty's authority over Tibet in the 1860s.[3]

Trinley Gyatso was fully enthroned as Dalai Lama on 11 March 1873 but could not stamp his full authority on Tibet because he died of a mysterious illness on 25 April 1875.[4]

"During the period of the short-lived Dalai Lamas—from the Ninth to the Twelfth incarnations—the Panchen was the lama of the hour, filling the void left by the four Dalai Lamas who died in their youth."[5]

References

  1. ^ Chhosphel, Samten (November 2011). "The Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso". The Treasury of Lives. The Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso ... was born ... in 1856, on the first day of the twelfth month of fire-dragon year of the fourteenth sexagenary cycle.
  2. ^ According to this online Tibetan calendar, the first day of the twelfth month of this year was 28 Dec 1856.
  3. ^ The Cambridge History of China, vol10, p. 407.
  4. ^ Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 54.
  5. ^ The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, p. 175. Glenn H. Mullin. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.

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Buddhist titles Preceded byKhedrup Gyatso Dalai Lama 1860–1875Recognized in 1858 Succeeded byThubten Gyatso
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