List of Panchen Lamas

This is a list of Panchen Lamas of Tibet. There are currently 10 recognised incarnations of the Panchen Lama; the 11th Panchen Lama is disputed however.

List

NameImageLife spanTibetan/WylieTHLOther transliterationsReferences
1.Khedrup Gelek Pelzang
1st Panchen Lama 		1385–1438[1]མཁས་གྲུབ་རྗེ།
mkhas grub rje,་
མཁས་གྲུབ་དགེ་ལེགས་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ།
mkhas grub dge legs dpal bzang po		Khédrup Gélek PelzangpoKhädrup Je, Khedrup Gelek Pelsang, Kedrup Geleg Pelzang, Khedup Gelek Palsang, Khedrup Gelek Pal Sangpo
2.Sönam Choklang
2nd Panchen Lama 		1438–1505[1]བསོད་ནམས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ།
bsod nams phyogs glang,་
བསོད་ནམས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་
bsod nams phyogs kyi glang po		Sönam Chok kyi LangpoSonam Choglang, Soenam Choklang
3.Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup
3rd Panchen Lama 		1505–1568[1]དབེན་ས་པ་བློ་བཟང་དོན་གྲུབ།
dben sa pa blo bzang don grub		Wensapa Lozang DöndrupGyalwa Ensapa, Ensapa Lozang Döndrup, Ensapa Losang Dhodrub
4.Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten
4th Panchen Lama 		1570–1662བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan		Lozang Chö kyi GyeltsenLosang Chökyi Gyältsän, Lozang Chökyi Gyeltsen, Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen, Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen, Lobsang Choegyal, Losang Chögyan
5.Lobsang Yeshe
5th Panchen Lama 		1663–1737བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས།
blo bzang ye shes		Lozang YéshéLobsang Yeshi, Losang Yeshe
6.Lobsang Palden Yeshe
6th Panchen Lama 		1738–1780བློ་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཡེ་ཤེས།
blo bzang dpal ldan ye shes		Lozang Penden YéshéPalden Yeshe, Palden Yeshi
7.Palden Tenpai Nyima7th Panchen Lama 1782–1853དཔལ་ལྡན་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ།
pal ldan bstan pa'i nyi ma		Penden Tenpé NyimaTänpä Nyima, Tenpé Nyima, Tempai Nyima, Tenpey Nyima
8.Tenpai Wangchuk8th Panchen Lama 1855?–1882བསྟན་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག
bstan pa'i dbang phyug		Tenpé WangchukTänpä Wangchug, Tenpé Wangchuk, Tempai Wangchuk, Tenpey Wangchuk
9.Thupten Chökyi Nyima
9th Panchen Lama 		1883–1937ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ།
thub bstan chos kyi nyi ma		Tupten Chö kyi NyimaChoekyi Nyima, Thubtän Chökyi Nyima
10.Choekyi Gyaltsen
10th Panchen Lama 		1938–1989བློ་བཟང་ཕྲིན་ལས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་
ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
blo bzang phrin las lhun grub chos kyi rgyal mtshan		Lozang Trinlé Lhündrup Chö kyi GyeltsenChoekyi Gyaltsen, Chökyi Gyeltsen, Choekyi Gyaltse, Trinley Choekyi Gyaltsen, Lozang Trinlä Lhündrup Chökyi Gyältsän

11th Panchen Lama schism

After the death of the 10th Panchen Lama a dispute happened between the Chinese leadership and the exiled 14th Dalai Lama resulted in a schism where two competing candidates are claimed to be the 11th Panchen Lama.[2][3]

NameImageLife spanTibetan/WylieTHLOther transliterationsNotesReferences
11.Gedhun Choekyi Nyima1989–དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ
dGe 'dun Chos kyi nyi ma		Gedhun Choekyi NyimaClaim supported by the 14th Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration[3]:6
11.Gyaincain Norbu1990–ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
chos kyi rgyal po		Chö kyi GyelpoChoekyi Gyalpo, Chökyi Gyälbo, Gyaltsen Norbu, QoigyijabuPolitical claim only supported by the Chinese government.[4][2]:109

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 The title Panchen Lama was conferred posthumously on the first two Panchen Lamas.
  2. 1 2 Goldstein, Melvyn C (1997). The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21951-1.
  3. 1 2 Hilton, Elizabeth. (2000). The Search for the Panchen Lama. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04969-8.
  4. ↑ The Tibetan government-in-exile under the 14th Dalai Lama recognizes Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th Panchen Lama; the government of China recognizes Gyaincain Norbu as the 11th Panchen Lama.
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