]> 2026-10-13T05:32:15-04:00 Dalai Lama, 2nd 0 en 84 People File:Dalai Lama 2nd HAR.png https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=965 File:Dalai Lama 2nd HAR.png File:Dalai Lama 2nd HAR.png The Second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatso དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ dge 'dun rgya mtsho Classical Tibetan Authors Classical Gendun Gyatso was the reincarnation of Gendun Drub. He served as abbot of three of the most powerful Geluk monasteries in both U and Tsang, significantly contributing to the spread of the Geluk tradition. Gendun Gyatso retained relations to his family’s religious traditions, which included Nyingma, Shangpa Kagyu, and Sakya teachings. He built the Ganden Podrang at Drepung around the year 1530, which came to be the residence of the Dalai Lamas and the seat of their government of Tibet in later centuries. His abbacies occurred during a time of intermittent war between the Kagyu rulers of Tsang and the Geluk leaders of Lhasa. https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Second-Dalai-Lama-Gendun-Gyatso/11114 2025-06-13T20:01:27Z 2460840.3343403 2025-06-13T20:01:27Z 2460840.3343403 true Dalai Lama, 2nd 0 1 template 3 [[Category:Tibetan Collections]] [[WorkAuthor::Dalai Lama, 2nd]] Dalai Lama, 2nd# QUERY54d3a30c1814408cb1ca6fff90cf47b2 0 0 count 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:Dalai Lama, 2nd]] Dalai Lama, 2nd# QUERY0df379d9b06fbce8a02c227ab5aea96d 0 200 0 template 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:Dalai Lama, 2nd]] Dalai Lama, 2nd# QUERY632f15d207f0ae9238261dc90f57214c བཅུད་ལེན་གྱི་གདམས་པ་རིམ་པ་ལྔ་པ། 0 en བཅུད་ལེན་གྱི་གདམས་པ་རིམ་པ་ལྔ་པ། WorkAuthor 102 en WorkAuthor