List of rulers of Tibet

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Below is a list of rulers of Tibet from the beginning of legendary history. Included are regimes with their base in Central Tibet, that held authority over at least a substantial portion of the country.

Pre-Imperial Yarlung Dynasty[1]

Tibetan Empire [2]

Sakya lamas[3]

Sakya imperial preceptors[4]

Phagmodrupa Dynasty[5]

Rinpungpa Dynasty[6]

Tsangpa Dynasty[7]

Khoshut protector rulers[8]

Pholha princes[8]

Dalai Lamas[8]

Image Name Date of birth Dalai Lama From Dalai Lama Until Date of death
1st Dalai Lama		 Gedun Drub 1391 N/A 1474
2nd Dalai Lama		 Gedun Gyatso 1475 1492 1542
3rd Dalai Lama		 Sonam Gyatso 1543 1578 1588
4th Dalai Lama		 Yonten Gyatso 1589 1601 1617
5th Dalai Lama		 Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso 1617 1642 1682
6th Dalai Lama		 Tsangyang Gyatso 1683 1697 1706
7th Dalai Lama		 Kelzang Gyatso 1708 1720 1757
8th Dalai Lama		 Jamphel Gyatso 1758 1762 1804
9th Dalai Lama		 Lungtok Gyatso 1805 1810 1815
10th Dalai Lama		 Tsultrim Gyatso 29 March 1816 1826 1837
11th Dalai Lama		 Khedrup Gyatso 1 November 1838 1842 31 January 1856
12th Dalai Lama		 Trinley Gyatso 26 January 1857 1860 25 April 1875
13th Dalai Lama		 Thubten Gyatso 12 February 1876 1879 17 December 1933
14th Dalai Lama		 Tenzin Gyatso 6 July 1935 17 November 1950 Alive

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References

  1. ↑ Ancient Tibet: Research materials from the Yeshe De project. Berkeley 1986, pp. 141-78; Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, Tibet. A Political History. Yale 1967.
  2. ↑ Christopher I. Beckwith, The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia. Princeton 1987, pp. 226–9; Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, Tibet. A Political History. Yale 1967.
  3. ↑ Luciano Petech, Central Tibet and the Mongols. Rome 1990.
  4. ↑ Luciano Petech, 1990.
  5. ↑ Giuseppe Tucci, Tibetan Painted Scrolls. Rome 1949; Giuseppe Tucci, Deb T'er Dmar Po Gsarma. Rome 1971; Per K. Sorensen & Guntram Hazod, Rulers on the Celestial Plain. Wien 2007; Olaf Czaja, Medieval rule in Tibet, Vol. I-II. Wien 2013.
  6. ↑ Giuseppe Tucci, 1949; Giuseppe Tucci, 1971; Olaf Czaja, 2013.
  7. ↑ Giuseppe Tucci, 1949; Hugh E. Richardson, A Short History of Tibet. New York 1962.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Hugh E. Richardson, 1962; Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, 1967.