Ganden Phodrang
| Ganden Phodrang | ||||||||||
| དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང | ||||||||||
| Tibetan regime Mongol overlordship (1642-1720) Chinese overlordship (1720-1912, 1951-59) |
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| Capital | Lhasa | |||||||||
| Languages | Tibetan | |||||||||
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism | |||||||||
| Government | Buddhist theocratic | |||||||||
| Monarch | ||||||||||
| • | 1642–1682 | 5th Dalai Lama (first) | ||||||||
| • | 1950–1959 | 14th Dalai Lama (last) | ||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | Established | 1642 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1959 | ||||||||
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The Ganden Phodrang or Ganden Podrang (Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང, Wylie: dGa' ldan pho brang, Lhasa dialect IPA: kɑ̃̀tɛ̃̀ pʰóʈɑ̀ŋ; Chinese: 甘丹頗章; pinyin: Gāndān Pōzhāng) was the Tibetan regime or government that was established by the 5th Dalai Lama with the help of the Güshi Khan of the Khoshut in 1642. Lhasa became the capital of Tibet in the beginning of this period, with all temporal power being conferred to the 5th Dalai Lama by Güshi Khan in Shigatse. After the expulsion of the Dzungars, Tibet was under administrative rule of the Qing dynasty between 1720 and 1912, but the Ganden Phodrang government lasted until the 1950s, when Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Kashag became the governing council of the Ganden Phodrang regime during the early Qing rule.
"Ganden Phodrang" was named after the residential quarters of the holder of the Dalai Lama lineage in the Drepung Monastery since the 2nd Dalai Lama. When the 5th Dalai Lama came to power and the expansion of the Potala Palace began, the Dalai Lama moved away from the actual quarters Ganden Phodrang and stayed at the Potala in the winter and Norbulingka in the summer. According to some, the Ganden Phodrang is represented by the Central Tibetan Administration or Dalai Lama's government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India after 1959. However, this is "Ganden Phodrang" in a different sense, the personal service or labrang of the Dalai Lama.
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