Dalai Lama, 5th
ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617 - 1682) Born in: 'phyong rgyas stag rtse <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Female Fire Snake, 10<sup>th</sup> sexagenary cycle. <br>
Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617 - 1682) Born in: 'phyong rgyas stag rtse <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Female Fire Snake, 10<sup>th</sup> sexagenary cycle. <br>
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File:DalaiFifth.jpg|Himalayan Art Resources|\n|@@@|thumb|none|x200px| }}The Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso, popularly known "The Great Fifth", was the first Dalai Lama to assume political rule of Tibet, forging lasting alliances with Mongol armies and the Qing court in China. He was both a brilliant tactician and a religious thinker, authoring numerous commentaries and ritual manuals, as well as histories and biographies. Although responsible for considerable sectarian violence and Geluk hegemony, including the suppression in Tibet of the Jonang tradition and the forcible conversion of many monasteries to the Geluk faith, the Fifth Dalai Lama never abandoned his family’s Nyingma affiliations, and he sponsored the establishment or renovation of several Nyingma monasteries. The great palace of Potala that he built as his residence and seat in Lhasa was named after that bodhisattva’s pure land, Potalaka, a naming that contributed to the dissemination of the identification of the Dalai Lama as an emanation of Avalokiteśvara.
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| BDRC | https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P37 |
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| Treasury of Lives | http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ngawang-Lobzang-Gyatso/6065 |
| Himalayan Art Resources | http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=540 |