The Eighth Dalai Lama (Jamphel Gyatso)
1758 CE–1804 CE · Modern · Thobgyal (Lhari Gang), Tsang
1758–1804 CE
Jamphel Gyatso (1758–1804 CE), the eighth Dalai Lama, was born in the Tsang region and enthroned in Lhasa as a young child in 1762. Of a retiring and devout temperament, he took relatively little part in government, which was run by regents for most of his life; he is chiefly remembered for building the Norbulingka, the Dalai Lamas' summer palace on the outskirts of Lhasa. He lived a comparatively long life for the mid-lineage Dalai Lamas, dying at about forty-six. His life and dates are well attested.
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Thobgyal (Lhari Gang), Tsang
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DOCUMENTED ORIGIN: born at Thobgyal in the Tsang region and recognized as the reincarnation of the Seventh Dalai Lama.
About Thobgyal (Lhari Gang), Tsang
Thobgyal, at Lhari Gang in the Tsang region of central Tibet, was the birthplace, in 1758, of Jamphel Gyatso, the Eighth Dalai Lama, during whose reign the Norbulingka summer palace was built in Lhasa.
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