Jedrung Lhawang Chokyi Gyeltsen was born in 1537 in Kham. He had considerable aptitude in reading and writing, and had a strong desire to become a monk...
Read more » | 1 |
Jedrung Lhawang Chokyi Gyeltsen was born in 1537 in Kham. He had considerable aptitude in reading and writing, and had a strong desire to become a monk...
Read more » | 1 |
Gendun Drub was born to a family of nomadic farmers in 1391 near Sakya in Tsang. According to legend, on the night he was born, the family’s camp was attacked by bandits...
Read more » |
The Fifth Panchen Lama, Lobzang Yeshe was born in 1663. At the age of 4, he was recognized by the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso as the reincarnation of the Fourth Panchen Lama...
Read more » |
Sherab Sengge was born in 1383 in a place called Gurme in Tsang. It is said that he did not like people coming to his home but that he showed signs of interest in religion...
Read more » |
Sonam Gyatso was born in 1543 in the Kyisho region of U to a family with strong ties to the Sakya tradition and the Pakmodru rulers of Tsang...
Read more » |
The Thirty-fifth Ganden Tripa, Trichen Konchok Chopel was born in Dranang Gonzhol in Southern Tibet in 1573, the water-bird year of the tenth sexagenary cycle...
Read more » |
Gendun Gyatso was born in 1476 in the Tanak area of Tsang. He was born to a family of yogic practitioners who had forged a connection to his predecessor the first Dalai Lama...
Read more » |
Drubkhang Gelek Gyatso was born into a poor family in Zanskar in Ladakh in 1641. His father died when he was six years old and his mother suffered from tuberculosis...
Read more » |
The First Purchok, Ngawang Jampa was born in Chamdo, Kham in 1682. He learned reading and writing, and also memorization of prayer texts at the age of seven...
Read more » |
The 12th Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso was born in a small town near Olkha Dzingchi in 1856. The young boy was one of three candidates for the reincarnation of the 11th Dalai Lama Khedrub Gyatso...
Read more » |
The Eleventh Dalai Lama, Khedrub Gyatso was born in a small town near Gartang Monastery near Dartsedo, Kham in 1838. In 1841 the Seventy-third Ganden Tripa...
Read more » |
The 76th Ganden Tripa, Lobzang Khyenrab Wangchuk was born in Gyelrong in Kham in the late 18th or early 19th century. Details of his parents and childhood are not known...
Read more » |
The Seventy-second Ganden Tripa, Jampel Tsultrim was born in Tobgyel Kharlung Nangpa in Tsang. He matriculated in the Drati House of Sera Je College of Sera Monastic University...
Read more » |
The Tenth Dalai Lama, Tsultrim Gyatso was born in Litang in 1816. His family was known as Drongto Norbutsang. Following the identification, Lobzang Nyendrak was given a title...
Read more » |
The Seventieth Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Chopel was born in a poor family in a place called Pabong Karri. At the age of five he was trained in caring for lambs and kids...
Read more » |
The 73rd Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso was born in Chone, Amdo in 1792. At a young age he was identified as the reincarnation of the 61st Ganden Tripa Trichen Ngawang Tsultrim...
Read more » |
The Sixty-sixth Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Nyendrak was born in Jakhyung in Amdo in 1746. He was admitted in the local Jakhyung Monastery at the age of ten and ordained by...
Read more » |
The Ninth Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso was born with several auspicious signs in a small village located near the Denchokor Monastery in Kham in 1805. Most sources have him as an orphan...
Read more » |
The 8th Tatsak Jedrung, Yeshe Lobzang Tenpai Gonpo, was born in 1760 in the Powo region of Kham. At the age of five he was identified as the reincarnation of the 7th Tatsak Jedrung...
Read more » |
With the death of the 7th Dalai Lama, Kelsang Gyatso, many of the ecclesiastical and political luminaries of that time gathered to discuss the future of the institution of the Dalai Lamas...
Read more » |