Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet.
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Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet.
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Lobsang Gyatso is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being a key religious and temporal leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet.
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Lobsang Gyatso wrote 24 volumes' worth of scholarly and religious works on a wide range of subjects.
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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.
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Lobsang Gyatso composed a special prayer asking his master "to return" and directed the monks of Tibet's great monasteries to recite it.
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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.
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Lobsang Gyatso had predicted that Gyaltsen would continue to be reincarnated in future as the 'Panchen Lama'.
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The great Geluk scholar Sumpa Khenpo acknowledged that Lobsang Gyatso took a special interest in Nyingma tantric doctrines.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:.
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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.
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Fifth Dalai Lama Lobsang Gyatso established diplomatic relations with the second emperor of the Qing dynasty, accepting the Shunzhi Emperor's 1649 invitation.
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Desi Sangay Lobsang Gyatso served as regent until the assumption of power by the Sixth Dalai Lama.
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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.
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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.
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