This is a list of Dalai Lamas of Tibet. There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama.
| Dalai Lama as temporal ruler of Tibet | |
|---|---|
 | |
 Flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile | |
| Style | His Holiness |
| Residence | Potala Palace Norbulingka |
| Seat | Lhasa |
| Term length | Life tenure |
| Formation | 1642 |
| First holder | 5th Dalai Lama |
| Final holder | 14th Dalai Lama |
| Abolished | 23 May 1951 (Seventeen Point Agreement) |
There has also been one non-recognised Dalai Lama, Ngawang Yeshe Gyatso (declared in 1707), by Lha-bzang Khan as the "true" 6th Dalai Lama – however, he was never accepted as such by the majority of the Tibetan people.[1][2][3]
List
edit| Title | Portrait | Name (Lifespan) |
Tibetan Wylie transliteration |
Dalai Lama from | Dalai Lama until |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Dalai Lama | 
|
Gedun Drupa (1391–1474) |
དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ། dge 'dun grub pa |
N/A | 1474 |
| 2nd Dalai Lama | 
|
Gedun Gyatso (1475–1542) |
དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ། dge-'dun rgya-mtsho |
1486 | 1542 |
| 3rd Dalai Lama | 
|
Sonam Gyatso (1543–1588) |
བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ bsod nams rgya mtsho |
1578 | 1588 |
| 4th Dalai Lama | 
|
Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617) |
ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ yon tan rgya mtsho |
1601 | 1617 |
| 5th Dalai Lama | 
|
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617–1682) |
ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho |
1642 | 1682 |
| 6th Dalai Lama | 
|
Tsangyang Gyatso (1683–1706) |
ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ tshangs-dbyangs rgya-mtsho |
1697 | 1706 |
| 7th Dalai Lama | 
|
Kelzang Gyatso (1708–1757) |
བསྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ bskal bzang rgya mtsho |
1720 | 1757 |
| 8th Dalai Lama | 
|
Jamphel Gyatso (1758–1804) |
འཇམ་དཔལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ 'jam dpal rgya mtsho |
1762 | 1804 |
| 9th Dalai Lama | 
|
Lungtok Gyatso (1805–1815) |
ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ lung rtogs rgya mtsho |
1810 | 6 March 1815 |
| 10th Dalai Lama | 
|
Tsultrim Gyatso (1816–1837) |
ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ tshul khrim rgya mtsho |
1826 | 30 September 1837 |
| 11th Dalai Lama | 
|
Khedrup Gyatso (1838–1856) |
མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ mkhas grub rgya mtsho |
1842 | 31 January 1856 |
| 12th Dalai Lama | 
|
Trinley Gyatso (1857–1875) |
འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ། 'phrin las rgya mtsho |
1860 | 25 April 1875 |
| 13th Dalai Lama | 
|
Thubten Gyatso (1876–1933) |
ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ thub bstan rgya mtsho |
31 July 1879 | 17 December 1933 |
| 14th Dalai Lama | 
|
Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) |
བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho |
22 February 1940 (de jure) |
Incumbent |
| 17 November 1950 (de facto)[4] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Stein 1972, p. 85.
- ^ Chapman, F. Spencer. (1940). Lhasa: The Holy City, p. 127. Readers Union Ltd. London.
- ^ Mullin 2001, p. 276.
- ^ "Chronology of Events". His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
Bibliography
edit- Stein, R. A. (1972). Tibetan civilization ([English ed.]. ed.). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. ISBN 0-8047-0901-7.
- Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, NM. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.