Dalai Lama, 6th

ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་དྲུག་པ་ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683 - 1706) Born in: Territory of Mon Tawang <br>

Source: Himalayan Art Resources

The life and legacy of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso is an uncertain admixture of tradition and controversy. Kept under virtual house arrest for a decade following his discovery, he was enthroned at a time of great political unrest in Tibet. He is often portrayed as a poet and libertine, who disrobed rather than take full monastic ordination. Following the murder of his regent, Sanggye Gyatso, he was ordered to the court of the Manchu Emperor in Beijing. According to one tradition, he died of fever in 1706 at Kunganor, but there is another tradition, in which he escaped and died in Alashan in 1746.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	tA la'i bla ma drug pa tshangs dbyangs rgya mtsho	ཏ་ལའི་བླ་མ་དྲུག་པ་ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ
Other Names

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Gelukpa
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Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P352
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Sixth-Dalai-Lama/TBRC_P352
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/items/65384