2nd Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama of Tibet (1476-1542) · China · Politicians · Died at 66
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Something wrong?Gedun Gyatso held the title in hindsight. He lived as a monk between Tashilhunpo and Drepung, ordained and teaching, but the numbered succession - the Dalai Lama line as institution - was formalized only after his death in 1542.
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Born in 1475, Gedun Gyatso was also called Yonten Phuntsok or Gedun Gyatso Palzangpo. He took ordination at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse and later moved to Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, where he spent his working life. He died in 1542. It was only posthumously that he received the designation 2nd Dalai Lama, slotted retroactively into a lineage that would grow to anchor Tibetan Buddhism and, eventually, global attention.
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