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Dalai Lama
རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་འཕྲེང་རིམ་བྱོན། bo 达赖喇嘛 zh ダライ・ラマ ja
Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacher
- Dated from 13th century CE
- Also called Grand Lama
Overview
Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacherWikidata record description. Read Dalai Lama in the Wikipedia reader.
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Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 12 holders
- 1 gap
- 1 step named in the records
- 10 undated
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13th 1 August 1879 CE – 17 December 1933 CE Thubten Gyatso 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1876-1933) -
Gap about 7 years with no holder recorded
14th from 22 February 1940 CE Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans
No dates recorded 10
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1st Dates unrecorded 1st Dalai Lama Dalai Lama of Tibet (1391-1474) -
2nd Dates unrecorded Gedun Gyatso Dalai Lama of Tibet (1476-1542) -
5th Dates unrecorded Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso political and religious leader of Tibet (1617–1682) -
6th Dates unrecorded Tsangyang Gyatso sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet (1683-1706) -
7th Dates unrecorded Kelzang Gyatso 7th Dalai Lama -
8th Dates unrecorded Jamphel Gyatso 8th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1758-1804) -
10th Dates unrecorded Dalai Lama 10 Tsultrim Gyatso 10th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1816-1837) -
11th Dates unrecorded Dalai Lama 11 Khedrub Gyatso 11th Dalai Lama (1838–1856) -
12th Dates unrecorded Trinle Gyatso 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1857-1875) -
Dates unrecorded Dalai Lama 09 Lungtok Gyatso 9th Dalai Lama (1805-1815)
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