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Ngawang Lobsang
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Ngawang Lozang Gyatso
Religion Tibetan Buddhism
Personal
Born 1617
Lhoka Chingwar Taktse, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Died 1682 (aged 64–65)
Lhasa, Tibet
Parents
  • Dudul Rabten (father)
  • Kunga Lhanzi (mother)
Senior posting
Title 5th Dalai Lama
Period in office 1642–1682
Predecessor Yonten Gyatso
Successor Tsangyang Gyatso
Tibetan name
Tibetan ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transcriptions
Wylie Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho
THL Ngawang Lozang Gyatso
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Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho; 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 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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  • Shigatse Dzong

    Shigatse, 2009.

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 135-S-17-08-40, Tibetexpedition, Kloster Tashi Lhunpo, Tempelhof

    Tashilhunpo Monastery, 1938 Tibet expedition photograph by Ernst Schäfer in German Federal Archives.

  • Lhukhang8

    View of Potala from 5th Dalai Lama's private Lukhang temple, December, 2008.

  • Potala-from-behind 07-2005

    The Potala from behind: July, 2005.

  • Nechung4

    Main temple at Nechung Monastery, 2009.

  • 1291428-1- Siegel des 5. Dalai Lama Dieter Schuh

    Official impression of trilingual (Manchurian, Chinese, and Tibetan) great seal of 5th Dalai Lama. Inscription (zhal-ris) translates to English as "Seal of the omniscient vajra holder la'i Ta-bla-ma, the excellent, fully-come-to-rest buddha of the West, lord of buddhist teachings in the world."

  • TIB-lhasa-potala-weisser-palast

    The Potala's white palace in Lhasa, the seat of Tibet's Ganden Phodrang government, built by the 5th Dalai Lama.

  • Dolpopa's Great Stupa at Jomonang, Tibet

    Stupa at Jomonang (U-Tsang, Lhatse, Tibet) completed in 1333 by Jonang founder Dolpopa (1292–1361). Courtesy Jonang Foundation © 2007.

  • Kircher Dalai Lama

    Contemporary Western engraving of 5th Dalai Lama, figure XIX, Latin caption translates "The figure of the great Lama, or the Eternal Father". Bust caption for figure XX translates "The late king Han of Tanguth is worshipped with divine honors"; thus more likely depicts Altan Khan of Tümed than Güshi Khan. Based on reports by Johannes Grueber of his 1661 visit to Lhasa. A. Kircher, China Illustrata, 1667.

  • Museum of Ethnology Vienna 002

    Statue portrait of 5th Dalai Lama. Mongolia, 19th century.

  • 1291431-1-Urkunde des 5. Dalai Lama Dieter Schuh

    Legal document showing traditional application of two of the 5th Dalai Lama's official seals, 1676 (CE).

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