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12th Dalai Lama

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12th Dalai Lama, Trinley Gyatso
ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ།, ཐེ་ལིན་ལི།ཅ་མཚོ།
TitleHis Holiness the 12th Dalai Lama
Personal life
Born(1856-12-28)28 December 1856[1][2]
Died25 April 1875(1875-04-25) (aged 18)
Religious life
ReligionTibetan Buddhism
Senior posting
Period in office1860–1875
Predecessor11th Dalai Lama, Khedrup Gyatso
Successor13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso

Trinley Gyatso (also spelled Trinle Gyatso and Thinle Gyatso; 28 December 1856 – 25 April 1875) was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Brief Life History

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Trinley Gyatso was fully enthroned as Dalai Lama on 11 March 1873 but could not stamp his full authority on Tibet because he died of a mysterious illness on 25 April 1875.[3]

"During the period of the short-lived Dalai Lamas—from the Ninth to the Twelfth incarnations—the Panchen was the lama of the hour, filling the void left by the four Dalai Lamas who died in their youth."[4]

References

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  1. ^ Chhosphel, Samten (November 2011). "The Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso". The Treasury of Lives. The Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso ... was born ... in 1856, on the first day of the twelfth month of fire-dragon year of the fourteenth sexagenary cycle.
  2. ^ According to this online Tibetan calendar, the first day of the twelfth month of this year was 28 Dec 1856.
  3. ^ Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 54.
  4. ^ The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, p. 175. Glenn H. Mullin. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.

Further reading

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  • Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, pp. 367–375. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
Buddhist titles
Preceded by Dalai Lama
1860–1875
Recognized in 1858
Succeeded by