Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ཚངས ་ དབྱངས ་ རྒྱ ་ མཚོ, Wylie: Tshang dbyang Rgya mtsho ) (1682 - November 15th 1706) is the 6th Dalaï Lama.

Biography

The 6th Dalaï Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso , from origin My Ba, was born in 1682 in the South from the Tibet, in the area of My Tawang , current the Arunachal Pradesh (India), of Tashi Tenzin and Tsewang Lhamo. To finish the construction of the Palate of the Potala, Desi Sangyé Gyatso respected the wishes of the 5th Dalaï Lama and maintained the secrecy on its death during 12 years, applicant that the " Large Cinquième" its long retirement continued. In the important occasions, the formal robe of the Dalaï Lama was placed on the throne. However, when the Mongolian princes insisted to have an audience, an old monk called Depa Deyrab of the Monastery of Namgyal, and which resembled the Dalaï Lama, was engaged to appear in its place. It wore a hat and a make-up to eyelids to dissimulate the fact that it did not have the piercing eyes of the Dalaï Lama. Desi Sangyé Gyatso maintained its history until he heard that a boy of My Tawang had remarkable capacities. It sent its assistants of confidence in the area and in 1688, the boy was brought to Nankartse, close to Lhassa where it received an instruction of teachers engaged by Desi Sangyé Gyatso until in 1697, when Desi sent its minister of confidence, Shabdrung Ngawang Shonu at the court Mandchou to inform the Emperor Kangxi of died of 5th and discovered 6th Dalaï Lama. He also announced it to the people Tibet, which accommodated the news with gratitude and joy, thanking Desi Sangyé Gyatso for having saving to them the lamentations of the disappearance of the Sun and for having delighted them by its lifting.

Desi Sangyé Gyatso invited the 5th Panchen LAMA, Lobsang Yeshe, in Nankartse, where this last conferred the wishes of monk of beginner at the young person Dalaï Lama and the Buddhist name Tsangyang Gyatso gave him. In 1697, at 14 years, it was established as a 6th Dalaï Lama at the time of a ceremony to which the civils servant of the government Tibetan representing assisted the three major monasteries - Séra, Ganden and Drépung - the Mongolian princes, the representatives the Emperor Kangxi and population of Lhassa.

In 1701, there be a conflict between Desi Sangyé Gyatso and Lhazang Khan, the descendant of Güshi Khan, and this last killed Desi, which disturbed the young person Dalaï Lama. It gave up its monastic studies and chose the external life, not planning to take the completely ordered wishes. It returned visit to the Panchen LAMA to Shigatse, will requiérra its forgiveness, and renonça with its wishes of monk of beginner. Although it continued to live the Palate of the Potala, it wandered around Lhassa and other insolated villages, spending its days with his friends in the park behind the Palate of the Potala and its nights in the taverns of Lhassa and of the village of Shol (located under the Potala) drinking beer and singing songs. It was known to be a large poet and a great writer.

Perhaps the fact that Tsangyang Gyatso was thus not formed as of its more young age with its spot of political director and spiritual explains its original personality and iconoclast: it was not formed sufficiently early with the protocol which its row imposed to him, that it discovered only after its fourteen years. It is also the Dalaï Lama to have only refused a life of ordered monk.

In 1706, it was invited in China, but it died at the time of its voyage.

References

• Web site of Dalaï Lama
• Monastery of Urguelling

See too

Internal bonds

• Dalaï Lama
• Panchen LAMA
• Tibet
• History of Tibet

External bonds

• Article of the BBC News on Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso
• Tsangyang Gyatso: Dalai Lama rebel, by Mr. K. Dhondup