21 Facts About Lobsang Gyatso

Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet.

Lobsang Gyatso is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being a key religious and temporal leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet.

Lobsang Gyatso wrote 24 volumes' worth of scholarly and religious works on a wide range of subjects.

Lobsang Gyatso's father had friendly relations with the Drugpa Kagyu and his mother had connections with the Jonangpa Kagyu through her family at Nakartse Dzong.

When Sonam Lobsang Gyatso died, the Gelugpa recognised a Mongolian prince as his incarnation and so a Mongolian 4th Dalai Lama, Yonten Lobsang Gyatso, was installed as the abbot of Drepung.

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Lobsang Gyatso was the name which Kunga Migyur received from Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen upon taking novice monastic ordination from him at Drepung.

Lobsang Gyatso composed a special prayer asking his master "to return" and directed the monks of Tibet's great monasteries to recite it.

Lobsang Gyatso reserved the traditional title of Panchen – which had previously been a courtesy title for all exceptionally learned lamas – exclusively for the Panchen Lama and his successors.

Lobsang Gyatso had predicted that Gyaltsen would continue to be reincarnated in future as the 'Panchen Lama'.

The great Geluk scholar Sumpa Khenpo acknowledged that Lobsang Gyatso took a special interest in Nyingma tantric doctrines.

Sonam Choephel, the regent during the 5th Dalai Lama Lobsang Gyatso's youth, requested the aid of Gushi Khan, a powerful Dzungar military leader in carrying out a military strategy in the Dalai Lama's name, though apparently with neither Lobsang Gyatso's prior knowledge nor consent.

Lobsang Gyatso established Nechung Monastery as the seat of Tibet's state oracle by instituting Gyalpo Pehar as the protector of Tibet's newly consolidated Ganden Phodrang government.

At any rate: confronted with the death of both people and cattle combined with harsh, unpredictable weather in an atmosphere of political intrigue and diplomatic insecurity, Lobsang Gyatso undertook a specific course of action which might be considered somewhat unconventional, even for a religiously affiliated head of state.

Lobsang Gyatso records elsewhere that the Fifth Dalai Lama's personal biographer and Sanskrit teacher the renowned Jonang scholar Jamyang Wangyal Dorje Mondrowa was a master of the Jonang tradition and belonged to a well-known Jonang family from Lato in Tsang with whom the Dalai Lama had good relations.

Lobsang Gyatso then specifies what this decree placed a ban on, and he thus ordered the reversal of specified sectarian policies being implemented, evidently without his approval, by the Desi's government:.

Lobsang Gyatso revitalized the Lhasa Monlam, the capital city's New Year Festival, which had originally been created by the reformer Je Tsongkhapa in 1409.

Fifth Dalai Lama Lobsang Gyatso established diplomatic relations with the second emperor of the Qing dynasty, accepting the Shunzhi Emperor's 1649 invitation.

The emperor gave Lobsang Gyatso a parting gift of an elaborate gold seal reading "Dalai Lama, Overseer of the Buddhist Faith on Earth Under the Great Benevolent Self-subsisting Buddha of the Western Paradise".

Desi Sangay Lobsang Gyatso served as regent until the assumption of power by the Sixth Dalai Lama.

Lobsang Gyatso was a prolific writer and respected scholar, who wrote in a free style which allowed him to frankly – and sometimes, ironically – express his own deepest feelings and independent interpretations.

Lobsang Gyatso took with him a number of the late Yonten Gyatsho's personal belongings to submit the less-than two year old candidate to a private recognition test, presumably in front of his family, which the boy passed without any difficulty.