11th Dalai Lama

Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1842 to 1855 11th Dalai Lama, Khedrup Gyatso Tibetan Buddhism His Holiness the 11th Dalai Lama The 11th Dalai Lama, mural in the Utse in Samye.jpg 1842–1855 10th Dalai Lama, Tsultrim Gyatso 12th Dalai Lama, Trinley Gyatso yes #FFCC33 མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ mkhas grub rgya mtsho Kedrup Gyatsho Tsewang Dondrup Yungdrung Butri 1838 11 1 yes Garthang Monastery, Kham, Qing Tibet 1856 01 31 1838 10 09 yes Potala Palace, Lhasa, Qing Tibet The 11th Dalai Lama, Khedrup Gyatso ( མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ Mkhas Grub Rgya Mtsho) (1 November 1838 – 31 January 1856) was recognized by the Ganden Tripa as the 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet and enthroned in 1842.His Holiness the Eleventh Dalai Lama, Khedrup Gyatso http://www.dalailama.com/biography/the-dalai-lamas#11 The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama 16 July 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120830023342/http://dalailama.com/biography/the-dalai-lamas#11 30 August 2012 He enlarged the Norbulingka, studied at Sera Monastery, Drepung Monastery and Ganden Monastery, and taught students. He was recognised as the 11th Dalai Lama in 1841, after being born in Garthang near Dartsedo, the same village where the 7th Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso was born in 1708. He was taken to Lhasa and in 1842, the 7th Panchen Lama, Lobzang Tenpai Nyima, gave him refuge vows, cut his hair and gave him the name of Khedrup Gyatso. In 1842, he was enthroned as the 11th Dalai Lama in the Potala Palace on the Full Moon day of the 4th Lunar month (24 May 1842). In 1846 he became a preliminary monk (rab byung), and in 1848 at the age of eleven years he took the getsul novice vows of monkhood, while both were bestowed by the 7th Panchen LamaKhetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 50. He had a residence at the Norbulingka built in 1848, and participated in the annual Zhoton summer festival in Lhasa, while also traveling on pilgrimage to Samye Monastery, Mount Kailash and its Lake Manasarovar, and to other places. He gave public audiences, taught, and stood for his examinations in 1852 and 1853, and passed. He wrote a book of stanzas, Story of the Monkeys and Birds (xct-latn yes Bya sprel gyi gtam-rgyud). It is an allegory of the war at the end of the 18th century between the Tibetans and the Gurkhas ('birds' and 'monkeys' respectively).Stein, R. A. (1972) Tibetan Civilization, p. 269. Stanford University Press. 0-8047-0806-1 (cloth); 0-8047-0901-7 (pbk) He assumed political leadership on the request of Daoguang Emperor in 1855 but died less than one year later on 31 January 1856,Samten Chhosphel, "The Eleventh Dalai Lama, Khendrup Gyatso", Treasury of Lives, 2011. becoming the third successive Dalai Lama who died at a young age. "During the period of the short-lived Dalai Lamas—from the Ninth to the Twelfth incarnations—the Panchen Lama was the lama of the hour, filling the void left by the four Dalai Lamas who died in their youth."The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, p. 175. Glenn H. Mullin. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1-57416-092-3. References Further reading Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, pp. 361–367. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1-57416-092-3. bu Tsultrim Gyatso Dalai Lama 1842–1856Recognized in 1841 Trinley Gyatso Category:1838 births Category:1856 deaths *A1 Category:Child monarchs from Asia Category:19th-century Tibetan people