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Oct 15, 1474
Fue el primer fundador
Ge-dun-grup-pa (? -1474) was the first, founder of the Buddhist sect of the yellow monks and the succession system of the reincarnation of the lamas. Sonam Gyatso, III Dalai Lama (1543-88) was actually the first to assume the title of Dalai (a Mongol word meaning "great ocean"). By converting the Mongol leader Altan Khan and his entire tribe, he firmly established the sect's hegemony in Tibet, extending its influence over Mongolia, western China, Bhutan and Sikkim. -
Ngawang Gyatso fue el primero en asumir el gobierno temporal
Ngawang Gyatso, V Dalai Lama (1617-82) was the first to assume the temporary government of Tibet in addition to spiritual leadership. This change took place in 1642, when the Mongol prince Gusri Khan was dethroned to the king of Tibet and he himself became king; in fact, Gusri merecer exercised a military protectorate over the Dalai Lama, who actually governed. When Gusri died in 1655, the Lama came to control power alone, although his religious authority . -
Evolución del budismo
From 1642 to 1959 the Dalai Lama held, in addition to spiritual leadership, temporal power in Tibet. When each Dalai Lama dies, the monks (lamas) of the Yellow Monastery designate their next reincarnation in a young child, interpreting a series of signs according to their vision of Tibetan Buddhism, result of the penetration and evolution of Buddhism in the area of the Himalayas. It is not, therefore, a dynasty of hereditary monarchs, but the highest personal magistracy. -
Desbarato el prestigio adquirido
His successor Tshangyang Gyatso, VI Dalai Lama (1683-1707), defeated the prestige acquired by the yellow monks with his dissolute and womanizing behavior. The Chinese emperor took the opportunity to intervene in Tibet, putting a stop to his spiritual influence on Mongolia and China itself. In 1720 the Chinese invaded Tibet and subjected the Dalai Lama to a vassalage relationship, which lasted until the disappearance of the Chinese Empire in 1911. -
Thupten Gyatso fue un gobernante despótico
whose diplomatic awkwardness confronted him with the great powers of the area. He played the trick of approaching Russia, being attacked by a British expedition that forced him to take refuge in China (1904); later, reconciled with the British, he suffered the attack of China and had to take refuge in India (1910). He returned to Tibet in 1913, when the country regained its independence due to the fall of the Manchu dynasty in China (1911). -
Nacio
Fecha de nacimiento: 6 de julio de 1935 (edad 83 años), -
El actual Dalai Lama
When dying his successor was identified in the boy Tendzin Gyatso, XIV and current Dalai Lama (1939 -) born in a poor family of Tibetan origin in the Chinese province of Quinghai (1935). In 1950, when he was still under the age of majority, the Chinese Communists invaded the country; Tendzin Gyatso, declared of age before his time, assumed power and took refuge near the border with India; but, not receiving outside help despite appeals to India.
