# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/panchen-sonam-dragpa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:45:37.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/panchen-sonam-dragpa"
name: "Panchen Sonam Dragpa"
slug: "panchen-sonam-dragpa"
description: "Panchen Sonam Dragpa (1478–1554) was the fifteenth Ganden Tripa or throneholder of Ganden Monastery. His texts form the core curriculum for the Loseling College of Drepung Monastic University, the Shartse College of the Ganden Monastic University, and several other Gelugpa monasteries. He was taught by the second Dalai Lama and in turn later became the teacher of the third Dalai Lama."
tagline: "Tibetan lama, 15th Ganden Tripa"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Tibetian_Wheel.svg/330px-Tibetian_Wheel.svg.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1478"
deathDate: "1554"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.206444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8F%AD%E9%92%A6%C2%B7%E7%B4%A2%E5%8D%97%E6%89%8E%E5%B7%B4"
    title: "班钦·索南扎巴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "পান-ছেন-ব্সোদ-নাম্স-গ্রাগ্স-পা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%91%E0%BD%82%E0%BD%A0%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BE%A1%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%81%E0%BE%B2%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%90%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%82%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%85%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BE%94%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BD%8E%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%86%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%A6%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%91%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%93%E0%BD%98%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%82%E0%BE%B2%E0%BD%82%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BC%8B"
    title: "དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་བཅོ་ལྔ་པ་པཎ་ཆེན་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penchen_S%C3%B6nam_Dragpa"
    title: "Penchen Sönam Dragpa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchen_Sonam_Dragpa"
    title: "Panchen Sonam Dragpa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchen_Sonam_Dragpa"
    title: "Panchen Sonam Dragpa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchen_Sonam_Dragpa"
    title: "Panchen Sonam Dragpa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4nchen_S%C3%B6nam_Dragpa"
    title: "Pänchen Sönam Dragpa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1992696"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump