founder and abbot of tashilhunpo monastery
1Dalai Lama — /dah luy lah meuh/ (formerly) the ruler and chief monk of Tibet, believed to be a reincarnation of Avalokitesvara and sought for among newborn children after the death of the preceding Dalai Lama. Cf. Tashi Lama. [ < Mongolian, equiv. to dalai… …
2religion — religionless, adj. /ri lij euhn/, n. 1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and… …
3Buddhism — Buddhist, n., adj. Buddhistic, Buddhistical, adj. Buddhistically, adv. /booh diz euhm, bood iz /, n. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that… …
4Nyingma — Tibetan name Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་ Wylie transliteration: rnying ma pronunciation in IPA: [ɲiŋma] …
5Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen — (Tibetan: དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wylie: Dol po pa Shes rab Rgyal mtshan) (1292–1361),[1] known simply as Dolpopa, the Tibetan Buddhist master known as The Buddha from …
612th Gyalwang Drukpa — His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, the spiritual head of Ladakh …
7Monlam Prayer Festival — Pilgrims at Jokhang, Lhasa during Monlam Monlam Tibetan name Tibetan …
8Atisha — This distinctive portrait of Atisha originated from a Kadampa monastery in Ti …
9Chögyam Trungpa — Religion Buddhism School Vajrayana Lineage Karma Kagyu and Nyingma …
10Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama — Part of a series on Tibetan Buddhism …
