Lungtok Gyatso, 9th Dalai Lama

Infobox Monarch
name =Lungtok Gyatso
title =9th Dalai Lama of Tibet


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reign =1808 – 1815
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native_lang1 =Tibetan
native_lang1_name1=ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ
native_lang2 =Wylie translit.
native_lang2_name1=lung rtogs rgya mtsho
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native_lang3_name1=IPA| [luŋtok catsʰɔ] (IPA)
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native_lang4_name1=Lungdog Gyaco
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native_lang5_name1=Lungtok Gyatsho
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native_lang6_name1=Lungtog Gyatso,
Lungtok Gyatso,
Luntok Gyatso
predecessor =Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama
successor =Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama
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date of birth =1806
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date of death =1815
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Lungtok Gyatso (1806 – 1815), also spelled Lungtog Gyatso and Luntok Gyatso, was the 9th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Lungtok Gyatso was born in 1805 or 1806 near Choekor Monastery in Dan Chokhor, a small village in the historical region of Kham to Tenzin Choekyong and Dhondup Dolma. ["The Ninth Dalai Lama LUNGTOK GYATSO." [http://namgyalmonastery.org/hhdl/hhdl9] ] In 1807, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Eighth Dalai Lama and was escorted to Lhasa with great ceremony. In 1810, he was enthroned at the Potala Palace on the Golden Throne of the Ganden Po-drang Government. He took his novice vows from the Panchen Lama, who gave him the name Lungtok Gyatso. This same year the elderly Regent, Ta-task Nga-wang Gon-po passed away and the De-mo Tul-ku Nga-wang Lo-zang Tub-ten Jig-me Gya-tso (d. 1819) was appointed to replace him. [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. 48.]

:"The English explorer Thomas Manning, who reached Lhasa in 1812, described his meeting with the 9th Dalai Lama, who was seven years old at the time, in rhapsodic terms. 'The lama's beautiful and interesting face engrossed all my attention,' Manning wrote. 'He had the simple, unaffected manners of a well-educated princely child. His face was, I thought, affectingly beautiful. He was of a gay and cheerful disposition. I was extremely affected by this interview with the lama. I could have wept through strangeness of sensation.'" [Brown, Mick. "The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa", pp. 28-29. (2004) Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, N.Y. ISBN 1-58234-177-X.]

Unfortunately, he served only briefly owing to his death at the age of nine in 1815. "The entire nation was plunged into sorrow", which lasted until the recognition of the new reincarnation eight years later. [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.]

Footnotes

Further reading

* Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). "The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation", pp. 342-353. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.