Dalai Lama, 2nd
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དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
The Second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatso
The Second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatso
Gendun Gyatso was the reincarnation of Gendun Drub. He served as abbot of three of the most powerful Geluk monasteries in both U and Tsang, significantly contributing to the spread of the Geluk tradition. Gendun Gyatso retained relations to his family’s religious traditions, which included Nyingma, Shangpa Kagyu, and Sakya teachings. He built the Ganden Podrang at Drepung around the year 1530, which came to be the residence of the Dalai Lamas and the seat of their government of Tibet in later centuries. His abbacies occurred during a time of intermittent war between the Kagyu rulers of Tsang and the Geluk leaders of Lhasa.
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| Main Wylie Name | dge 'dun rgya mtsho | དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ |
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| BDRC | http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P84 |
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| Treasury of Lives | https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Second-Dalai-Lama-Gendun-Gyatso/11114 |
| Himalayan Art Resources | https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=965 |