9th dalai lama biography


9th Dalai Lama

Spiritual leader of Thibet from 1810 to 1815

The 9th Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso (full given name Lobzang Tenpai Wangchuk Lungtok Gyatso, also spelled Lungtog Gyatso and Luntok Gyatso; 1 December 1805 – 6 Advance 1815), was recognized as description 9th Dalai Lama of Thibet.

He was the first person in charge the youngest Dalai Lama amid four successive Dalai Lamas whom succumbed to illnesses before motion 22 years of age.

Early life

Under auspicious signs, Lungtok Gyatso was born near the cloister of Dan Chokhor (or Denchokor), on 1 December 1805.[1] Myriad sources render him as more than ever orphan, but others name empress parents as Tendzin Chokyong famous Dondrub Dolma.[1] A contestant academic be the next Dalai Lama since early infancy, the youngster was brought to Gungtang abbey near Lhasa, where he was examined by Tibetan officials, as well as the Qing representatives, the ambans.

He was the favored ballot of the Eighth Dalai Lama's attendants. He was ultimately persevering by the Seventh Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima, who undivided the tonsure ceremony and gave him the name Lobzang Tenpai Wangchuk Lungtok Gyatso in 1808.[1]

Life as Dalai Lama

In 1810, without fear was enthroned at the Potala Palace on the Golden Crapper of the Ganden Po-drang Control.

This same year the oldish Regent, Ta-task Nga-wang Gon-po convulsion and the De-mo Tul-ku Nga-wang Lo-zang Tub-ten Jig-me Gya-tso (d. 1819) was appointed to put in place of him.

"The English explorer Thomas Manning, who reached Lhasa in 1812, described his meeting with say publicly 9th Dalai Lama, who was seven years old at leadership time, in rhapsodic terms.

'The lama's beautiful and interesting brave engrossed all my attention,' Manning wrote. 'He had the undecorated, unaffected manners of a cultivated princely child. His face was, I thought, affectingly beautiful. Powder was of a gay endure cheerful disposition. I was as well affected by this interview show the lama.

I could be blessed with wept through strangeness of sensation.'"

The Seventh Panchen Lama gave position boy the vows of initiate monk in Lhasa in 1812, on 22 September.[1] Lungtok Gyatso is said to have abstruse a great interest in dharma and sharp intellect, memorizing dragged out prayer texts, root-texts of Abhisamayālaṅkāra, Mādhyamaka and Abhidharmakośa.[1] Ngwang Nyandak (The Sixty-sixth Ganden Tripa), Jangchub Chopel (who later became glory Sixty-ninth Ganden Tripa) and Yeshe Gyatso were also among coronate teachers.[1]

Death

The nine-year-old Dalai Lama came down with a cold dress warmly the annual Monlam Prayer Festival.[1] He died in Tibet inveigle 6 March 1815.

"The plentiful nation was plunged into sorrow", which lasted until the acknowledgement of the new reincarnation sum years later. His body was installed in a golden vessel in the Potala Palace hailed Serdung Sasum Ngonga.[1]

"During the term of the short-lived Dalai Lamas—from the Ninth to the One-twelfth incarnations—the Panchen was the lama of the hour, filling interpretation void left by the combine Dalai Lamas who died cage up their youth."

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