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Dge-’dun-grub-pa

Dalai Lama

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  • 14th Dalai Lama
    In Dalai Lama: History of Dalai Lamas

    …first of the line was Dge-’dun-grub-pa (Gendun Drupa; 1391–1474), founder and abbot of Tashilhunpo monastery (central Tibet). In accordance with the belief in reincarnate lamas, his successors were conceived as his rebirths and came to be regarded as physical manifestations of the compassionate bodhisattva (“buddha-to-be”), Avalokiteshvara.

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