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The First Dalai Lama
The First Dalai Lama, Gendun Drub (dGe-’dun grub) was born as Pema Dorje (Padma rdo-rje) in to a nomadic family that wandered the areas around Sakya (Sa-skya), in the Tsang (gTsang) district of Tibet. His mother, Jomo Namkha Kyi (Jo-mo nam-mkha’ skyid), gave birth in a farmhouse, and a legend goes that, that very night, the family was attacked by bandits. Jomo Namkha Kyi quickly wrapped the baby in blankets, hid him among the rocks, and then fled. She returned the next morning to find her son doing just fine, with a black raven beside him. It is said that this raven was an emanation of Mahakala, who would later be the First Dalai Lama’s personal protector deity.
When his father passed away, Gendrun Drub was sent to Narthang Monastery (sNar-thang dgon), where he commenced learning to read and write and then took the novice vows of a monk at the age of fifteen from the abbot, Drubpa Sherab (Grub-pa shes-rab), where he was given the monastic name Gendun Drubpa Pal (dGe-’dun grub-pa dpal). He excelled particularly in his studies of logic and vinaya – the vows and rules of ethical discipline for the monastic community – and, at the age of twenty, became fully ordained.
After this, Gendun Drub travelled eastwards to U (dBus), in order to stu
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Birth to Exile
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Dalai Lama
Tulku lineage of Gelug Tibetan Buddhism
For other uses, see Dalailama.
For the list, see List of Dalai Lamas.
For the current Dalai Lama, see 14th Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama (, ;[1][2]Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma[táːlɛːláma]) is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣 识一切 瓦齐尔达喇 达赖 喇嘛)[3] given by Altan Khan, the first Shunyi King of Ming China. He offered it in appreciation to the leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, Sonam Gyatso, who received it in at Yanghua Monastery.[4] At that time, Sonam Gyatso had just given teachings to the Khan, and so the title of Dalai Lama was also given to the entire tulku lineage. Sonam Gyatso became the 3rd Dalai Lama, while the first two tulkus in the lineage, the 1st Dalai Lama and the 2nd Dalai Lama, were posthumously awarded the title.
All tulkus in the lineage of the Dalai Lamas are considered manifestations of Avalokiteshvara,[2][1] the bodhisattva of compassion.[5][6]
Since the time of the 5th Dalai Lama in the 17th century, the Dalai Lama has been a symbol of unification of the state of Tibet.[7] The Dalai Lama was an important figure of the Gelug traditio