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Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho
ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ
the Great Thirteenth
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13th Dalai Lama
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13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1879-1933)
Thubten Gyatso was an intellectual reformer and skillful politician. He was responsible for rebuilding Tibet's geopolitical position after the British expedition to Tibet, restoring discipline in monastic life, and increasing the number of lay officials to avoid excessive power being placed in the hands of the monks.
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Created: 16 October 2026, C. Kemnitz
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Sources
The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2021). Short biographies of the previous dalai lamas. [online] The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Available at: https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/previous-dalai-lamas/previous-dalai-lama [Accessed 16 Oct. 2026].
Image: Tubetn Gyasto, 1910 by M. Sain, Darjeeling, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30044549