Dalai Lama, 1st

Dalai Lama, 1st on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ

Wylie	dge 'dun grub
English Phonetics	Gendün Drup
Sort Name	Drub, Gendün

Dates

Birth:	1391
Death:	1474
Place of birth:	Near Sakya in Tsang

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Biographical Information

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.

Links

BDRC Link (P80)

https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P80

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/First-Dalai-Lama-Gendun-Drub/10687

Wiki Pages

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.

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.