Lungtok Gyatso

9th Dalai Lama

A 19
th
century engraved portrait of the 9th Dalai
Lama.
Reign 18101815
Predecessor Jamphel Gyatso
Successor Tsultrim Gyatso
Tibetan - ----
Wylie lung rtogs rgya mtsho
Pronunciation lutok cats
THDL Lungtok Gyatsho
Chinese
Father Tendzin Chokyong
Mother Dondrub Dolma
Born 1 December 1805
Dan Chokhor, Kham, Tibet
Died 6 March 1815 (aged 9)
Tibet
9th Dalai Lama
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The9th Dalai Lama (religious name: Lungtok Gyatso, shortened
fromLobzang Tenpai Wangchuk Lungtok Gyatso; 1 December
1805 6 March 1815), also spelledLungtog Gyatso andLuntok
Gyatso, was the 9th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was the only Dalai
Lama to die in childhood and was part of a string of four Dalai Lamas
to die before reaching 22 years of age.
Early life
Under auspicious signs, Lungtok Gyatso was born near the monastery
of Dan Chokhor (or Denchokor), on 1 December 1805.
[1]
Many
sources render him as an orphan, but others name his parents as
Tendzin Chokyong and Dondrub Dolma.
[1]
A contestant to be the
next Dalai Lama since early infancy, the boy was brought to Gungtang
monastery near Lhasa, where he was examined by Tibetan officials,
including the Qing representatives, the ambans. He was the favored
choice of the Eighth Dalai Lama's attendants. He was ultimately
selected by the Seventh Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima, who,
in 1808, performed the tonsure ceremony and gave him the name
Lobzang Tenpai Wangchuk Lungtok Gyatso.
[1]
Life as Dalai Lama
In 1807, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Eighth Dalai
Lama and was escorted to Lhasa with great ceremony. In 1810, he
was enthroned at the Potala Palace on the Golden Throne of the
Ganden Po-drang Government. He took his novice vows from the
Panchen Lama, who gave him the name Lungtok Gyatso. This same
year the elderly Regent, Ta-task Nga-wang Gon-po died and the
De-mo Tul-ku Nga-wang Lo-zang Tub-ten Jig-me Gya-tso (d. 1819)
was appointed to replace him.
[2]
"The English explorer Thomas Manning, who reached Lhasa in
1812, described his meeting with the 9th Dalai Lama, who was
seven years old at the time, in rhapsodic terms. 'The lama's
beautiful and interesting face engrossed all my attention,'
Manning wrote. 'He had the simple, unaffected manners of a
well-educated princely child. His face was, I thought, affectingly beautiful. He was of a gay and cheerful
disposition. I was extremely affected by this interview with the lama. I could have wept through strangeness of
sensation.'"
[3][4]
The Seventh Panchen Lama gave the boy the vows of novice monk in Lhasa in 1812, on 22 September.
[1]
Lungtok
Gyatso is said to have had a great interest in dharma and sharp intellect, memorizing lengthy prayer texts, root-texts of
Abhisamaylara, Mdhyamaka and Abhidharmakoa.
[1]
Ngwang Nyandak (The Sixty-sixth Ganden Tripa), Jangchub
Chopel (who later became the Sixty-ninth Ganden Tripa) and Yeshe Gyatso were also among his teachers.
[1]
Death
The nine-year-old Dalai Lama came down with a cold at the annual Monlam Prayer Festival.
[1]
He died in Tibet on 6
March 1815
[5]
. "The entire nation was plunged into sorrow", which lasted until the recognition of the new reincarnation
eight years later.
[6]
His body was installed in a golden reliquary in the Potala Palace called Serdung Sasum Ngonga.
[1]
"During the period of the short-lived Dalai Lamasfrom the Ninth to the Twelfth incarnationsthe Panchen was
the lama of the hour, filling the void left by the four Dalai Lamas who died in their youth."
[7]
References
^
a b c d e f g h
Chhosphel, Samten (February 2011). "The Ninth Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso" (http://www.treasuryoflives.org
/biographies/view/Ninth-Dalai-Lama-Lungtok-Gyatso/4469) . The Treasury of Lives. treasuryoflives.com.
http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ninth-Dalai-Lama-Lungtok-Gyatso/4469. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
1.
^ Rinpoche 1982, p. 48. 2.
^ Brown 2010, p. 28. 3.
^ Brown 2010, p. 29. 4.
^ Morris & Irwin 1970, p. 86. 5.
^ Rinpoche 1982, p. 49. 6.
^ Mullin 2008, p. 179. 7.
Bibliography
Rinpoche, Khetsun Sangpo (Spring/Summer 1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas". The
Tibet Journal VII (1 & 2).
Mullin, Glenn H. (2008). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation. Santa Fe: Clear Light.
ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
Brown, Mick (2010). The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa. London:
Bloomsbury. ISBN 1-58234-177-X.
Morris, Richard Brandon; Irwin, Graham W. (1970). Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Michigan:
Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-013072-5.
Lungtok Gyatso
Dalai Lama
Born: 1 December 1805 Died: 6 March 1815
Buddhist titles
Preceded by
Jamphel Gyatso
Dalai Lama
18101815
Recognized in 1807
Succeeded by
Tsultrim Gyatso
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