2nd dalai lama biography
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- The 2nd Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso, [1] (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: dge-'dun rgya-mtsho, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", –) was also known as Yonten Phuntsok, or Gedun Gyatso Palzangpo.
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- This is a list of Dalai Lamas of Tibet.
| 8th dalai lama | He was ordained at Tashilhunpo Monastery at Shigatse, and later resided at Drepung Monastery in Lhasa. |
| 15th dalai lama | The 2nd Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso, [1] (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: dge-'dun rgya-mtsho, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", 1475–1542) was also known as Yonten Phuntsok, or Gedun Gyatso Palzangpo. |
| dalai lama 3 | The 2nd Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso, was also known as Yonten Phuntsok, or Gedun Gyatso Palzangpo. |
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- Gedun Gyatso,, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", layname: Yonten Phuntsok; 1475–1542), was considered posthumously to have been the second Dalai Lama.
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The Second Dalai LamaGedun Gyatso Palzangpo, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants" (1475–1542), was considered posthumously to be the second Dalai Lama.
He was born near Shigatse at Tanak as Sangye Phel, in the Tsang region of Central Tibet. His father, Kunga Gyaltsen (1432–1481) was a disciple of the Sakya patriarch Namkha Neljor (1388-1469), founder of the Sakya monastery Tanak. His mother was Machik Kunga Pemo. They were a farming family.
Legend has it that soon after he learned to speak, he told his parents his name was Pema Dorje, the birth name of Gendun Drup (1391–1474) and that his father was Lobsang Drakpa, which was Tsongkapa's ordination name.
When he was four, he reportedly told his parents he wished to live in the Tashilhunpo monastery (next to Shigatse and founded in 1447 by Gendun Drup) to be with his monks.
He was proclaimed the reincarnation of Gendun Drup as a young boy – according to some sources at t
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