9th Dalai Lama
9th Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso | |||||
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| Title | His Holiness the 9th Dalai Lama | ||||
| Personal life | |||||
| Born | 1 December 1805 Dan Chokhor, Kham, Tibet | ||||
| Died | 6 March 1815 (aged 9) Ü-Tsang, Tibet | ||||
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| Religious life | |||||
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism | ||||
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| Period in office | 1810–1815 | ||||
| Predecessor | 8th Dalai Lama, Jamphel Gyatso | ||||
| Successor | 10th Dalai Lama, Tsultrim Gyatso | ||||
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| Tibetan | ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | ||||
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The 9th Dalai Lama (born Lungtok Gyatso; full spiritual name: Lobzang Tenpai Wangchuk Lungtok Gyatso) (Tibetan: ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: lung rtogs rgya mtsho) (1 December 1805 – 6 March 1815) was recognized as the 9th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was the first and the youngest Dalai Lama among four successive Dalai Lamas who succumbed to illnesses before reaching 22 years of age.