*[[ta lai bla ma 05 ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho]]
*[[rdo rje thogs med rtsal]]
*[[gang shar rang grol]]
*[[tshangs sras bzhad pa'i rdo rje 'jigs med go cha thub bstan lang tsho gsar pa'i sde]]
*[[zill gnon bzhad pa rtsal]]
*[[za hor sngags smyon zil gnon bzhad pa rtsal]]
*[[nag po zil gnon drag po rtsal]]
*[[zil gnon drag rtsal rdo rje]]
*[[rgyal dbang lnga pa]]
*[[ta la'i bla ma 05 ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho]]
*[[byang sems myu gu rtsal]]
*[[Dalai Lama 05 Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso]]
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== Dates ==
Born: 1617<br>
Died: 1682<br>
== Affiliation ==
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[http://tbrc.org/link?RID=P37 TBRC RID: P37]
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Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso
ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
The Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso, popularly known "The Great Fifth", was the first Dalai Lama to assume political rule of Tibet, forging lasting alliances with Mongol armies and the Qing court in China. He was both a brilliant tactician and a religious thinker, authoring numerous commentaries and ritual manuals, as well as histories and biographies. Although responsible for considerable sectarian violence and Geluk hegemony, including the suppression in Tibet of the Jonang tradition and the forcible conversion of many monasteries to the Geluk faith, the Fifth Dalai Lama never abandoned his family’s Nyingma affiliations, and he sponsored the establishment or renovation of several Nyingma monasteries. The great palace of Potala that he built as his residence and seat in Lhasa was named after that bodhisattva’s pure land, Potalaka, a naming that contributed to the dissemination of the identification of the Dalai Lama as an emanation of Avalokiteśvara. ... read more at