5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang | |||||||
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Title | His Holiness the 5th Dalai Lama | ||||||
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Born | 1617 | ||||||
Died | 1682 (aged 64–65) | ||||||
Religion | Tibetan Buddhism | ||||||
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Period in office | 1642–1682 | ||||||
Predecessor | 4th Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso | ||||||
Successor | 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso | ||||||
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Tibetan | ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | ||||||
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The 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho; Tibetan pronunciation: [ŋɑ̀wɑ̀ŋ lɔ́psɑ̀ŋ cɑ̀t͡só]; 1617–1682) was recognized as the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to hold both political and spiritual leadership over Tibet. He is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being a key religious and temporal leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet. He is credited with unifying all of Tibet under the Ganden Phodrang, after Gushri Khans successful military interventions. As an independent head of state, he established relations with both Mongolians and with the Qing dynasty, as well as with 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.