6th Dalai Lama

Religious Leader

1683 – 1706

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Who was 6th Dalai Lama?

Tsangyang Gyatso was the sixth Dalai Lama. He was a Monpa by ethnicity and was born at Urgelling Monastery, 5 km from Tawang, India and not far from the large Tawang Monastery in the northwestern part of present-day Arunachal Pradesh in India.

He led a playboy lifestyle and disappeared, near Kokonor probably murdered on his way to Beijing in 1706. Tsangyang Gyatso composed poems and songs that are still immensely popular in Tibet to this day.

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Born
Mar 1, 1683
Mongolia
Died
Nov 15, 1706
Qinghai

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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