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Tsangyang Gyatso

Born

in Mon Tawang, India

March 01, 1683

Died

November 15, 1706

Website

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Si...

Genre

Poetry

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Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ། Wylie: tshangs dbyangs rgya mtsho) was the sixth Dalai Lama, te first and only Dalai Lama to live as a layman rather than a monk. He was a Monpa by ethnicity and was born at Urgelling Monastery, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Tawang Town, India and not far from the large Tawang Monastery in the northwestern part of present-day Arunachal Pradesh (claimed by China as South Tibet).

He had grown up a youth of high intelligence, liberal to a fault, fond of pleasure, of wine and of women and later led a playboy lifestyle. He disappeared near Qinghai, probably murdered, on his way to Beijing in 1706. The 6th Dalai Lama composed poems and songs that are not only still immensely popular in modern day Tibet bu ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 108 ratings · 11 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Turquoise Bee: The Tantric Lovesongs of the Sixth Dalai Lama by Tsangyang Gyatso, Rick Fields (Translator), Brian Cutillo (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Crane: Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama by Tsangyang Gyatso, Geoffrey Waters (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs of Love, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama by Tsangyang Gyatso, Paul Williams (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs of the 6th Dalai Lama by Tsangyang Gyatso, K. Dhondup (Translator) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	仓央嘉措诗传 by Tsangyang Gyatso, 欣宇苗 (Translator), 辉马 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canciones líricas del Sexto Dalai Lama by Tsangyang Gyatso, J.I. Preciado Idoeta (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just for Meeting You on the Way (Journal of the Most Beautiful Ancient Poetry of Tsangyang Gyatso) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poems of Cangyang Jiacuo (Hardcover) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Tsangyang Gyatso (?)

“If I could meditate upon the dharma
As intensely as I muse on my beloved
I would certainly attain enlightenment
Surely, in this one lifetime”
― Tsangyang Gyatso, Songs of the 6th Dalai Lama

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“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
― Dalai Lama VI

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“White crane!
Lend me your wings
I will not fly far
From Lithang, I shall return”
― Tsangyang Gyatso, Songs of the 6th Dalai Lama

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