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3rd Dalai Lama - Wikipedia. Sonam Gyatso ( Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: bsod nams rgya mtsho, ZYPY: Soinam Gyaco; 1543–1588) was the first to be named Dalai Lama, although the title was retrospectively given to his two predecessors.
Like the Seventh Dalai Lama, the Tenth, Tsultrim Gyatso, was born in Lithang, Kham, where the Third Dalai Lama had built a monastery. It was 1816 and Regent Demo Tulku and the Seventh Panchen Lama followed indications from Nechung , the 'state oracle' which led them to appoint him at the age of two.
There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama. 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 .
Sonam Gyatso ( Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ , Wylie: bsod nams rgya mtsho) (1543–1588) was the first to be named Dalai Lama, although the title was retrospectively given to his two predecessors.
Sonam Gyatso was given the title of Dalai Lama by the leader of the Tumet Mongols, Altan Khan, which was posthumously applied to his previous incarnations, Gendun Drub and Gendun Gyatso. A tireless missionary of the Geluk teachings, he was instrumental in what is known as “the second conversion of the Mongols”, bringing the Geluk teachings ...
The Third Dalai Lama was the first to be known by the name "Dalai. Lama", yet because his two previous reincarnations were officially recognized, he immediately became the Third, and the title Dalai was instantly and posthumously ascribed to his two predecessors.
The Third Dalai Lama publicly announced that he was a reincarnation of Phagpa, while the Altan Khan was areincarnation of Kublai Khan and they had come together again to cooperate in propagating the Buddhist religion.
Nov 20, 2013 · Sonam Gyatso (1543–1588), the 3rd Dalai Lama, was the first individual endowed with the title. The name Dalai—given to Sonam Gyatso by Altan Khan (1507–1582), the leader of the Tumut Mongols and a descendent of Kublai Khan—is Mongolian for “vast sea.”
Sonam Gyatso was given the title of Dalai Lama by the leader of the Tumet Mongols, Altan Khan, which was posthumously applied to his previous incarnations, Gendun Drub and Gendun Gyatso.
Sonam Gyatso (Tib. བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. bsod nams rgya mtsho) (1543–1588) — the Third Dalai Lama. Recognized at the age of four he was taken under the care of Drepung Monastery of which he became abbot at the age of ten. His education was supervised by Panchen Sonam Drakpa .
