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Gedun Gyatso
Title2nd Dalai Lama (posthumous designation)
Personal
Born
Sangye Phel

1475
Tanag Segme, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Died1542 (aged 66–67)
Tibet
ReligionTibetan Buddhism
Parents
  • Kunga Gyaltso (father)
  • Machik Kunga Pemo (mother)
Senior posting
Period in office1486–1576
PredecessorGedun Drupa
SuccessorSonam Gyatso
Chinese name
Chinese根敦嘉措
Tibetan name
Tibetanདགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

Gedun Gyatso,[1] (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: dge-'dun rgya-mtsho, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", layname: Yonten Phuntsok; 1475–1542) also Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo, was considered posthumously to have been the second Dalai Lama.

  1. ^ "Short Biographies of the Previous Dalai Lamas". DalaiLama.com. Retrieved 2018-05-13.

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