3rd Dalai Lama
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| Fourteen incarnation of the Dalai Lama |
Sonam Gyatso (Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: bsod nams rgya mtsho) (1543–1588) was the first to be named Dalai Lama, although the title was retrospectively given to his two predecessors.
He was born near Lhasa in 1543 and was recognised as the reincarnation of Gendun Gyatso[1] and subsequently enthroned at Drepung Monastery by Panchen Sonam Dragpa (the 15th Ganden Tripa).
In 1552, Sonam Gyatso became the abbot of Drepung monastery and in 1558, the abbot of Sera monastery. In 1574, he established the Phende Lekshe Ling in order to assist him in carrying out his religious activities, which is now known as Namgyal monastery and still serves as the Dalai Lama's personal monastery.[2]
Sonam Gyatso developed a relationship with the leader of the Tumed Mongols, the Altan Khan, who acknowledged Sonam Gyatso as his spiritual teacher. The Altan Khan bestowed the title of "Dalai Lama" on Sonam Gyatso. "Dalai" is the Mongolian word for "ocean" or "big"[3][4] And "Lama" (T. bla-ma) is the Tibetan for a "guru" or "teacher".
- Further reading
- 3rd Dalai Lama (Wikipedia)
The Third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso, Treasury of Lives
- Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, pp. 129–163. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
- Essence of Refined Gold by the Third Dalai Lama: with related texts by the Second and Seventh Dalai Lamas. (1978) Translated by Glenn H. Mullin. Tushita Books, Dharamsala, H.P., India.
Notes
- ↑ tbrc.org: dge 'dun rgya mtsho
- ↑ "Short Biographies of the Previous Dalai Lamas". DalaiLama.com.
- ↑ Laird 2006, p. 143.
- ↑ Deriving from the Mongolian title Dalaiyin qan or Dalaiin khan; see Schwieger (2014), p.33
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