Tsangyang | |
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6th Dalai Lama | |
Reign | 1697–1706 |
Predecessor | Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso |
Successor | Kelzang Gyatso |
Tibetan | ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ |
Wylie | tshangs dbyangs rgya mtsho |
Transcription (PRC) |
Cangyang Gyaco |
Chinese | 倉央嘉措 |
Born |
Tawang Town, Tibet, now in India |
1 March 1683
Died | 15 November 1706 Qinghai, Qing dynasty (presumed, last appearance) |
(aged 23)
Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ, Wylie: tshangs-dbyangs rgya-mtsho, ZYPY: Cangyang Gyamco) (1 March 1683 – 15 November 1706) was the sixth Dalai Lama. He was a Monpa by ethnicity and was born at Urgelling Monastery, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Tawang Town, India and not far from the large Tawang Monastery in the northwestern part of present-day Arunachal Pradesh.
He had grown up a youth of high intelligence, liberal to a fault, fond of pleasure, alcohol and women, and later led a playboy lifestyle. He disappeared near Qinghai, possibly murdered, on his way to Beijing in 1706. The 6th Dalai Lama composed poems and songs that have become popular not only in modern-day Tibet, but all across China.
Tsangyang was born on 1 March 1683 in Mon Tawang (in modern Arunachal Pradesh, India) to Lama Tashi Tenzin of Urgelling, a descendant of the treasure revealer Pema Lingpa, and Tsewang Lhamo, a Monpa girl hailing from a royal family of Bekhar Village.
There are many stories about the life and death of Tsangyang Gyatso.