RELIGIOUS FIGURE

6th Dalai Lama

1683 - 1706

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The 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ, Wylie: tshangs-dbyangs rgya-mtsho, ZYPY: Cangyang Gyamco; 1 March 1683 – after 1706), was recognized as the 6th Dalai Lama after a delay of many years, permitting the Potala Palace to be completed. He was an unconventional Dalai Lama that preferred a Nyingma school yogi's life to that of an ordained monk. He was later kidnapped and deposed by the Koshut Lha-bzang Khan. The death of the 5th Dalai Lama remained concealed for many years by his Kalon, in order to complete the building of the Potala Palace. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. 6th Dalai Lama is the 840th most popular religious figure (down from 696th in 2019). (down from 292nd in 2019)

The 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, is most famous for his poems and songs.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, 6th Dalai Lama ranks 840 out of 3,187. Before him are Scipione Borghese, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Saint Cajetan, Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, and Mammes of Caesarea. After him are John Nelson Darby, John of Rila, Servatius of Tongeren, Martin de Porres, Antipope Ursicinus, and Sadhu Sundar Singh.

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Among people born in 1683, 6th Dalai Lama ranks 7. Before him are Philip V of Spain, Jean-Philippe Rameau, George II of Great Britain, Caroline of Ansbach, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, and Maria Anna of Austria. After him are Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Gottfried Silbermann, Christoph Graupner, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Johann David Heinichen, and Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1706, 6th Dalai Lama ranks 4. Before him are Johann Pachelbel, Pierre Bayle, and Peter II of Portugal. After him are Georg Joseph Kamel, Arsenije III Čarnojević, Rahman Baba, Kimpa Vita, Andreas Werckmeister, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, John Evelyn, and Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin.

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