1st Dalai Lama
1st Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa | |||||||
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ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་དང་པོ།, ཀེ་ཏུན་ཏེ་ལུའུ་པ། | |||||||
དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ། | |||||||
| Title | 1st Dalai Lama (posthumous designation) | ||||||
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| Born | Péma Dorjee 1391 | ||||||
| Died | 1474 (aged 82–83) Ü-Tsang, Tibet | ||||||
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| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism | ||||||
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| Successor | Gedun Gyatso | ||||||
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| Chinese | 根敦朱巴 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ | ||||||
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| Original name: Péma Dorjee | |||||||
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| Chinese | 巴玛多杰 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | པད་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ | ||||||
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The 1st Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ།, Wylie: dge 'dun grub pa) (1391–1474) was a student of Je Tsongkhapa, and became his first Khenpo (Abbott) at Ganden Monastery. He also founded Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse. He was posthumously awarded the spiritual title of Dalai Lama.