1st Dalai Lama

Original name: Péma Dorjee
Original name: Péma Dorjee
Chinese name
Chinese	巴玛多杰
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	bāmǎ duōjié
Tibetan name
Tibetan	པད་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	pad ma rdo rje

1st Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa
1st Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa
ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་དང་པོ།, ཀེ་ཏུན་ཏེ་ལུའུ་པ།
	དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ།
Title	1st Dalai Lama (posthumous designation)
Personal life
Born	Péma Dorjee; 1391; Shabtod, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Died	1474 (aged 82–83); Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Parents	Gonpo Dorjee (father); Jomo Namkha Kyi (mother);
Religious life
Religion	Tibetan Buddhism
Senior posting
Successor	Gedun Gyatso

The 1st Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa^[1] (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ།, Wylie: dge 'dun grub pa; 1391–1474) was a student of Je Tsongkhapa, and became his first Khenpo (Abbott) at Ganden Monastery. He also founded Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigaste. He was posthumously awarded the spiritual title of Dalai Lama.^[2]

^ "Short Biographies of the Previous Dalai Lamas". DalaiLama.com. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
^ "dge 'dun grub pa". Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Retrieved May 20, 2015.

[1] "Short Biographies of the Previous Dalai Lamas". DalaiLama.com. Retrieved May 13, 2018.

[TBRC-2] "dge 'dun grub pa". Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Retrieved May 20, 2015.

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