Concept
5th Dalai Lama
Overview
The 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho) (1617–1682) was recognized as the 5th Dalai Lama, and he became the first Dalai Lama to hold both Tibet's political and spiritual leadership roles.
He is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being the key religious and temporal leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet. He is credited with unifying all of Tibet under the Ganden Phodrang, after Gushri Khan's successful military interventions.
As an independent head of state, he established priest and patron relations with both Mongolia and the Qing dynasty simultaneously, and had positive relations with other neighboring countries.
He began the custom of meeting early European explorers.
The 5th Dalai Lama built the Potala Palace, and also wrote 24 volumes' worth of scholarly and religious works on a wide range of subjects.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.
3. 'What is called a great minister, is one who serves his prince according to what is right, and when he finds he cannot do so, retires. 4. 'Now, as to Yu and Ch'iu, they may be called ordinary ministers.' 5. Tsze-zan said, 'Then they will always follow their chief;-- will they?' 6. The Master said, 'In an act of parricide or regicide, they would not follow him.' CHAP. XXIV. 1. Tsze-lu got Tsze-kao appointed…
Confucius, The Analects of Confucius
States what 5th Dalai Lama is.
When this proclamation is over, the king exhibits, so as to line both sides of the road, the five hundred different bodily forms in which the Bodhisattva has in the course of his history appeared:--here as Sudâna, there as Sâma; now as the king of elephants, and then as a stag or a horse. All these figures are brightly colored and grandly executed, looking as if they were alive. After this the tooth of Buddha is…
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to 5th Dalai Lama; the term itself is not named.
son of Procop. This prelate was a person of great learning and sagacity: his travels through the different parts of Europe had afforded him opportunities of remarks on the several abuses which reign amongst them. The czar, who had himself been a witness of the same, had this great advantage in forming all his regulations, that he was possessed of an unlimited power to choose what was useful, and reject what was…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
Close in meaning to 5th Dalai Lama; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed 5th Dalai Lama
Related ideas
- Ghost
- Je Tsongkhapa
- India
- Nyingma
- Jesuits
- Latin
- Beijing
- Mongolia
- Bon
- Sakya
- Gelug
- Kagyu
- 14th Dalai Lama
- Emanationism
- Bhutan
- Qing dynasty
- Sutra
- Nobility
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Tantra
- Tibet
- Buddhism
- The Buddha
- Enlightenment in Buddhism
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.