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The Twelfth Dalai Lama (Trinley Gyatso)

The Twelfth Dalai Lama (Trinley Gyatso)

1857 CE–1875 CE · Modern · Ölkha Dzingchi (Lhoka)

1856/1857–1875 CE (died young, aged about twenty)

Trinley Gyatso (1857–1875 CE), the twelfth Dalai Lama, was born in the Lhoka district south of Lhasa and enthroned in 1860. He was the last in the run of short-lived 19th-century Dalai Lamas: he formally assumed the government only in 1873 and died about two years later at roughly twenty, so that for most of his life, and much of the century, real authority rested with regents. His life and dates are attested; sources differ slightly on whether his birth year is reckoned 1856 or 1857.

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Ölkha Dzingchi (Lhoka)

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DOCUMENTED ORIGIN: born in the Lhoka (Shannan) district south of Lhasa and recognized as the reincarnation of the Eleventh Dalai Lama, enthroned in 1860.

About Ölkha Dzingchi (Lhoka)

The Lhoka (Lhokha) region of south-central Tibet was the birthplace, in 1856–57, of Trinley Gyatso, the Twelfth Dalai Lama; sources place his birth in the Ölkha area of Lhoka. He died in his teens.

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