5th Dalai Lama
Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1642 to 1682 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho; Tibetan pronunciation: [ŋɑ̀wɑ̀ŋ lɔ́psɑ̀ŋ cɑ̀t͡só]; 1617–1682) was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet. He is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being a key religious and temporal leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet. Gyatso is credited with unifying all Tibet under the Ganden Phodrang after a Mongol military intervention which ended a protracted era of civil wars. As an independent head of state, he established relations with the Qing empire and other regional countries and also met early European explorers. Gyatso also wrote 24 volumes' worth of scholarly and religious works on a wide range of subjects.
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Title | 5th Dalai Lama | ||||||
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Born | 1617 | ||||||
Died | 1682 (aged 64–65) | ||||||
Religion | Tibetan Buddhism | ||||||
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Period in office | 1642–1682 | ||||||
Predecessor | Yonten Gyatso | ||||||
Successor | Tsangyang Gyatso | ||||||
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Tibetan | ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | ||||||
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