Lungtok Gyatso, 9th Dalai Lama

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Lungtok Gyatso, 9th Dalai Lama
Tibetan name
Tibetan: ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ
Wylie transliteration: lung rtogs rgya mtsho
pronunciation in IPA: [luŋtok catsʰɔ]
official transcription (PRC): Lungdog Gyaco
THDL: Lungtok Gyatsho
other transcriptions: Lungtog Gyatso,
Lungtok Gyatso,
Luntok Gyatso
Chinese name
traditional: 隆朵嘉措
simplified: 隆朵嘉措
Pinyin: Lóngduǒ Jiācuò
Lungtok Gyatso
9th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Reign 1808 – 1815
Born 1806
Died 1815
Predecessor Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama
Successor Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama
Royal House Dalai Lama

Lungtok Gyatso (1806 – 1815), also spelled Lungtog Gyatso and Luntok Gyatso, was the 9th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Lungtok Gyatso was born in 1805 or 1806 near Choekor Monastery in Dan Chokhor, a small village in the historical region of Kham to Tenzin Choekyong and Dhondup Dolma.[1]

In 1807, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Eighth Dalai Lama and was escorted to Lhasa with great ceremony. In 1810, he was enthroned at the Potala Palace on the Golden Throne of the Ganden Po-drang Government. He took his novice vows from the Panchen Lama, who gave him the name Lungtok Gyatso. This same year the elderly Regent, Ta-task Nga-wang Gon-po passed away and the De-mo Tul-ku Nga-wang Lo-zang Tub-ten Jig-me Gya-tso (d. 1819) was appointed to replace him.[2]

"The English explorer Thomas Manning, who reached Lhasa in 1812, described his meeting with the 9th Dalai Lama, who was seven years old at the time, in rhapsodic terms. 'The lama's beautiful and interesting face engrossed all my attention,' Manning wrote. 'He had the simple, unaffected manners of a well-educated princely child. His face was, I thought, affectingly beautiful. He was of a gay and cheerful disposition. I was extremely affected by this interview with the lama. I could have wept through strangeness of sensation.'"[3]

Unfortunately, he served only briefly owing to his death at the age of nine in 1815. "The entire nation was plunged into sorrow", which lasted until the recognition of the new reincarnation eight years later.[4]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ "The Ninth Dalai Lama LUNGTOK GYATSO." [1]
  2. ^ Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 48.
  3. ^ Brown, Mick. The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa, pp. 28-29. (2004) Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, N.Y. ISBN 1-58234-177-X.
  4. ^ Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 49.


Preceded by
Jamphel Gyatso		 Reincarnation of the Dalai Lama Succeeded by
Tsultrim Gyatso
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