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Due to his two periods of exile in 1904–1909, to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910 to 1913 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.
The Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tubten Gyatso, lived through a turbulent time in Tibetan and world history. Forced into exile first by a British invasion and then by a Chinese invasion, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama learned about modern technology and different forms of government.
Jun 25, 2019 · But the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933), was a true temporal and spiritual leader who guided his people through a firestorm of challenges to the survival of Tibet. The events of the Great Thirteenth's reign are critical to understanding today's controversy over Tibet's occupation by China.
Jul 10, 2024 · The 13th Dalai Lama, Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho (1875–1933), ruled with great personal authority. The successful revolt within China against its ruling Manchu dynasty in 1912 gave the Tibetans the opportunity to dispel the disunited Chinese troops, and the Dalai Lama reigned as head of a sovereign state.
When the Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso ( ta la'i bla ma 13 'phrin la rgya mtsho, 1856-1875) died at the young age of twenty in 1875, his face is said to have turned toward the south-east, which was taken as a sign that the new incarnation would be born in that direction.
Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal, abbreviated to Thubten Gyatso [1] ( Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ , Wylie: Thub Bstan Rgya Mtsho; 12 February 1876 – 17 December 1933) was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet, [2] enthroned during a turbulent era and the collapse of the Qing Empire.
Thubten Gyatso (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Thub Bstan Rgya Mtsho; 12 February 1876 – 17 December 1933) was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
The late Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Thupten Gyatso, was born in 1875 or early 1876, the son of humble parents in the district of Takpo, to the south of the Tsangpo River. Little is known of his early life.
Thupten Gyatso (Tib. ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. thub bstan rgya mtsho ), the Thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876–1933), was the immediate predecessor of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, and one of the most important and long-lived in the lineage of Dalai Lamas.
The 13th [Dalai Lama] did not visit Lhamtso until he was 25 years old. He was adequately prepared by spiritual exercise and he also had faithful cooks. The Chinese were disappointed when he did not die like his predecessors, and he was to live long enough to give them much more cause for regret.
