Gendün Drup

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
FirstName / namefirst	Gendün
LastName / namelast	Drub
MainNamePhon	Gendün Drup
MainNameTib	དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ
MainNameWylie	dge 'dun grub
SortName	Drub, Gendün
bio	Gendün Drub was a close disciple of Tsongkhapa, after first ordaining and training in the great Kadam monastery of Nartang. Gendün Drub was instrumental in spreading the new Geluk tradition in Tsang; he founded the great monastery Tashilhunpo in 1447 and was its first abbot, until 1484. He was posthumously identified as the First Dalai Lama, a previous incarnation of the third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso, who first held the title. Gendün Drub was identified as an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion believed to be embodied in the Dalai Lama incarnation line.
YearBirth	1391
YearDeath	1474
BornIn	Near Sakya in Tsang
BDRC	https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P80
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/First-Dalai-Lama-Gendun-Drub/10687
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The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.