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The Ninth Dalai Lama (Lungtok Gyatso)

The Ninth Dalai Lama (Lungtok Gyatso)

1805 CE–1815 CE · Modern · Dan Chökhor, Kham

1805–1815 CE (died as a child, aged nine)

Lungtok Gyatso (1805–1815 CE), the ninth Dalai Lama, was born in Kham and enthroned in Lhasa in 1808 and formally at the Potala in 1810, but died in childhood—he caught a chill at the Lhasa Monlam festival and passed away at about nine years old. He had no opportunity to play a religious or political role, and his death began a tragic run in which four successive Dalai Lamas died young, leaving Tibet effectively governed by regents for much of the 19th century. His brief life and dates are attested in the records.

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Dan Chökhor, Kham

What they did here

DOCUMENTED ORIGIN: born in a village in the Kham region of eastern Tibet and recognized as the reincarnation of the Eighth Dalai Lama; enthroned at the Potala in 1808/1810.

About Dan Chökhor, Kham

Dan Chökhor is a village in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It was the birthplace, in 1805, of Lungtok Gyatso, the Ninth Dalai Lama, who died as a child — the first of several Dalai Lamas who did not reach adulthood.

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