Dalai Lama as temporal ruler of Tibet
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StyleHis Holiness
ResidencePotala Palace
Norbulingka
SeatLhasa
Term lengthLife tenure
Formation1642
First holder5th Dalai Lama
Final holder14th 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.

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

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.

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.
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