Dalai Lama, 7th
| Wylie | bskal bzang rgya mtsho |
|---|---|
| English Phonetics | Seventh Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso |
| Birth: | 1708 |
|---|---|
| Death: | 1757 |
| Place of birth: | Litang, Kham |
Tibetan calendar dates
Biographical Information
The life of the Seventh Dalai Lama Kelzang Gyatso spanned a troubled period in Tibetan history, during which the Land of Snows was transformed from the battleground of competing Mongol factions into a protectorate of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Trained as a monk-scholar, the turmoil that surrounded his youth and early adulthood had effectively excluded him from an active political role until the events of 1747-1750 propelled him to head the Tibetan government at the age of forty-three. It may be said that the institution of the Dalai Lama, given its characteristic religio-political foundations under the leadership of the Great Fifth, assumed its mature form under the Seventh, whose relations with the Manchus set the pattern for Sino-Tibetan affairs throughout the remainder of the Qing dynasty. (Source Accessed Feb 3, 2022)
- BDRC Link (P179)
- http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P179
- Treasury of Lives Link
- https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Seventh-Dalai-Lama-Kelzang-Gyatso/3107
- Wiki Pages
Other Information[edit]
Dalai Lama, 7th
tā la'i bla ma bdun pa blo bzang bskal bzang rgya mtsho Nyengur (blo sbyong dang 'brel ba'i gdams pa dang) snyan mgur (gyi rim pa phyogs gcig tu bkod pa don ldan tshangs pa'i sgra dbyangs zhes bya ba) Text in The Collected Works (Gsuṅ 'bum) of the Seventh Dalai Lama Blobzaṅ-bskal-bzan-rgya-mtsho. Reproduced from a set of prints from the 1945 'Bras-spuns blocks from the library of the Ven. Dhardo Rimpoche by Lama Dodrup Sangye. Gangtok, 1975, 1:397-502.