Dalai Lama, 5th
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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.
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Terton Gyatsa Information
| Name in Gyatsa (Tibetan) | རྒྱལ་མཆོག་ལྔ་པ་; རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐོགས་མེད་རྩལ་; ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ |
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| Name in Gyatsa (Wylie) | rgyal mchog lnga pa; rdo rje thogs med rtsal; ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho |
| Page numbers | Rinchen Terdzö, Volume I, Text #6, Pages 716 to 719, folio 118b2 to 190a1 |
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