5th Dalai Lama

Ngawang Lobsang
Ngawang Lozang Gyatso
Title	5th Dalai Lama
Personal
Born	1617 Lhoka Chingwar Taktse, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Died	1682 (aged 64–65) Lhasa, Tibet
Religion	Tibetan Buddhism
Parents	Dudul Rabten (father) Kunga Lhanzi (mother)
Senior posting
Period in office	1642–1682
Predecessor	Yonten Gyatso
Successor	Tsangyang Gyatso
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transcriptions Wylie Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho THL Ngawang Lozang Gyatso

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Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho; Tibetan pronunciation: [ŋɑ̀wɑ̀ŋ lɔ́psɑ̀ŋ cɑ̀t͡só]; 1617–1682) was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet. He is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being a key religious and temporal leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet. Gyatso is credited with unifying all Tibet under the Ganden Phodrang after a Mongol military intervention which ended a protracted era of civil wars. As an independent head of state, he established relations with the Qing empire and other regional countries and also met early European explorers. Gyatso also wrote 24 volumes' worth of scholarly and religious works on a wide range of subjects.