1st Dalai Lama

Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1391 to 1474 November 2022 1st Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་དང་པོ།, ཀེ་ཏུན་ཏེ་ལུའུ་པ། Tibetan Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama.jpg bo དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ། Tibetan Buddhism Péma Dorjee 1391 Shabtod, Ü-Tsang, Tibet 1474 1391 Ü-Tsang, Tibet 1st Dalai Lama (posthumous designation) Jomo Namkha Kyi Gonpo Dorjee Gedun Gyatso yes #FFCC33 根敦朱巴 gēndūn zhūbā དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ dge 'dun grub pa Original name: Péma Dorjee #FFCC33 巴玛多杰 bāmǎ duōjié པད་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ pad ma rdo rje The 1st Dalai Lama, Gedun DrupaShort Biographies of the Previous Dalai Lamas https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/previous-dalai-lamas/previous-dalai-lama May 13, 2018 DalaiLama.com (དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ། dge 'dun grub pa) (1391–1474) was a student of Je Tsongkhapa, and became his first Khenpo (Abbott) at Ganden Monastery. He also founded Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse. He was posthumously awarded the spiritual title of Dalai Lama.dge 'dun grub pa http://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P80 May 20, 2015 Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Biography thumb|upright=1.2|Gedun Drupa, 1st Dalai Lama Gedun Drupa was born in a cow-shed in Gyurmey Rupa near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet, the son of Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha Kyi, nomadic tribespeople.Gedun Drupa https://web.archive.org/web/20051213024822/http://www.dalailama.com/page.51.htm December 13, 2005 at Dalai Lama website. He was raised as a shepherd until the age of seven. His birth name (according to the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, his personal name) was Péma Dorjee (པད་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་, "Vajra Lotus"). Ordination Later he was placed in Narthang Monastery. In 1405, he took his getsul (novitiate) vows from the abbot of Narthang, Khenchen Drupa Sherap.March 2022 When he was 20 years old, in about 1411, he received the name Gedun Drupa upon taking the vows of a bhikṣu (monk) from the abbot of Narthang Monastery.Samphel Tendar 2004 75 Also at this age he became a student of the scholar and reformer Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419),Farrer-Halls 1998 77 who some say was his uncle.Samphel Tendar 2004 35 Around this time he also became the first abbot of Ganden Monastery, founded by Tsongkhapa himself in 1409.Simhanada, The Lion's Roar of Mahayana Buddhism http://www.simhas.org/ deviated https://web.archive.org/web/20160711005439/http://www.simhas.org/ 11 July 2016February 2023 Career By the middle of his life, Gedun Drupa had become one of the most esteemed scholar-saints in the country.March 2022 Gedun Drupa founded the major monastery of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery at Shigatse, which later became the seat of the Panchen Lamas.Chö Yang: The Voice of Tibetan Religion and Culture 1991 Council for Religious and Cultural Affairs Year of Tibet Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamshala 79February 2023 no Gedun Drupa did not hold national political power. It was in the hands of viceroys such as the Sakyas, the prince of Tsang, and the Mongolian Khagan. The Tibetan national political leadership positions of the successive Dalai Lamas began much later during the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama, in 1642.March 2022 He remained the Khenpo of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery until he died while meditating in 1474 at the age of 84 (83 by Western reckoning).Samphel Tendar 2004 35 Legends Tradition states that Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, Lhamo Latso, promised the First Dalai Lama in one of her visions "...that she would protect the reincarnation lineage of the Dalai Lamas." Since the time of Gedun Gyatso, who formalized the system, monks have gone to the lake to meditate when seeking visions with guidance on finding the next reincarnation.Laird 2006 139, 264–265 Notable contemporaries The Samding Dorje Phagmo (1422–1455), the highest female incarnation in Tibet,Dowman 1988 268 was a contemporary of Gedun Drupa. Her teacher, the Bodongpa Panchen Chogley Namgyal was also one of his teachers; he received many teachings and empowerments from him.Bodong.info http://www.bodong.info/en/bodong/chogleynamgyal.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080828022618/http://www.bodong.info/en/bodong/chogleynamgyal.html August 28, 2008 March 7, 2009 Works Some of the most famous texts Gedun Drupa wrote were: Sunlight on the Path to Freedom, a commentary on Abhidharma-kosa Crushing the Forces of Evil to Dust, an epic poem on the life and liberating deeds of Gautama Buddha Song of the Eastern Snow Mountain, a poem dedicated to Je Tsongkhapa Praise of the Venerable Lady Khadiravani Tara, an homage to Tara References Works cited Dowman Keith The Power-places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide 1988 Routledge & Kegan Paul 0-7102-1370-0 Farrer-Halls Gill World of the Dalai Lama 1998 Quest Books 77 Laird Thomas The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama Grove Press 2006 978-0-8021-1827-1 N.Y. Samphel Thubten Tendar The Dalai Lamas of Tibet 2004 Roli & Janssen 81-7436-085-9 New Delhi Thubten Samphel Further reading McKay, A. (editor) (2003): History of Tibet. Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon. 0-7007-1508-8 Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, pp. 50–85. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1-57416-092-3. Dalai Elan Roebuck. (1991) Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama. San Francisco, CA. Selected Works of the Dalai Lama I by Anne Kandt, Christine Cox, Dalai Lama Dge-Dun-Grub I, Glenn H. Mullin, Sidney Piburn (1985) External links Biography of the First Dalai Lama on The Treasury of Lives by Namdrol Miranda Adams Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center bu New creation Dalai Lama N/APosthumously recognized Gedun Gyatso Category:1391 births Category:1474 deaths *1 Category:Tibetan writers Category:Tibetan people Category:15th-century Tibetan people