- Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama
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name =Tsultrim Gyatso
title =10th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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predecessor =Lungtok Gyatso, 9th Dalai Lama
successor =Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama
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date of birth =1816
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date of death =1837
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place of burial =|Tsultrim Gyatso (1816 – September 1837) was the 10th
Dalai Lama ofTibet .Of a modest family in
Chamdo (eastern Tibet), he was recognised as the reincarnation ofLungtok Gyatso , the 9th Dalai Lama, in 1820. At the time his family did not even have an heir to their land, but he took the name Tsultrim Gyatso and was enthroned at thePotala Palace in 1822."His Holiness the Tenth Dalai Lama TSULTRIM GYATSO". [http://namgyalmonastery.org/hhdl/hhdl0] ] 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. 49.]After Lungtok Gyatso died in 1815, eight years had passed before the new Dalai Lama was chosen. The political events in this period are murky, but finally Palden Tenpai Nyima intervened and used the
Golden Urn (from which names of candidates were picked) for the first time as part of the tests for the choice of the new Dalai Lama.In 1822 the 10th Dalai Lama was placed upon the Golden Throne and soon after his enthronement received his pre-novice ordination from Palden Tenpai Nyima, who gave him the name of
Tsultrim Gyatso .He administered the Gelong vows (full ordination) to Tsultrin Gyatso in 1831.In 1826, he was enrolled at
Drepung Monastery and mastered bothsutra andtantra . He studied Tibetan Buddhist texts extensively during the rest of his life.In 1831 he reconstructed the Potala Palace and, at the age of nineteen, he took the Gelong vows (full ordination) from the Panchen Lama the same year.
He set about to overhaul the economic structure of Tibet but, unfortunately, did not live long enough to see his plans come to fruition.
He was constantly in poor health and died in 1837.
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Further reading
* Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). "The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation", pp. 353-361. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
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