Dalai Lama 10 Tsultrim Gyatso

Tsultrim Gyatso was chosen from a field of six potential incarnates of the 9th Dalai Lama Lungtok Gyatso. Preferred as the best by the Tibetan oracle and government officials in 1820, he travelled to Lhasa in 1821 after which the Kalon (regent) Demo Ngawang Lobzang Tubten Jigme Gyatso died. The Qing emperor's representatives (ambans) then insisted that their "golden urn" be used to confirm the incarnation, delaying the enthronement for a year. During that year of delay, Tibetan historians state[1] According to Tibetan historians, Tibetan officials allowed the amban [to] announced that the Urn had been used to satisfy the Emperor, despite the reality that the Urn had not been employed. The enthronement took place on eighth day of the eighth month of the water-horse-year of the fourteenth sexagenary cycle, and was supervised by the regent. The enthronement of the 10th Dalai Lama, Tsultrim Gyatso, was held at the Potala Palace on 23 September 1822, which is the eighth day of the eighth lunar month of the Water Horse Year.[2] Soon after his enthronement in 1822, the Dalai Lama received his pre-novice ordination from the Seventh Panchen Lama Lobzang Palden Tenpai Nyima and gave him the name Ngawang Lobzang Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso (ngag dbang blo bzang 'jam dpal tshul khrims rgya mtsho). The following month he became a novice monk. His father received a title and the Yutok estate, which initiated a noble Tibetan family line. In 1825 in his 10th year, the Dalai Lama had many tutors and was enrolled at Drepung Monastery and studied both sutra and tantra. He likely studied at Ganden Monastery and Sera Monastery as well. He studied Tibetan Buddhist texts extensively during the rest of his life. In 1830, the Dalai Lama was put in charge of the Tibetan state, and a report called the "Iron-Tiger Report" on agriculture and tax policies was prepared. In 1831 the Dalai Lama reconstructed the Potala Palace. In 1834 the Dalai Lama gave teachings to the Fifth Kalkha and to the Mongolian King of Torgo, and sent senior monks to Mongolia to establish a Kalacakra center there. The Dalai Lama set about to overhaul the economic structure of Tibet but did not live long enough to see his plans come to fruition. After becoming ill in 1834 during an epidemic breakout in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama received his full Gelong ordination from the Panchen Lama in his nineteenth year. The 10th Dalai Lama's body was installed in a golden reliquary in the Potala Palace called The Supreme Ornament of the Three Realms” (gser gdung khams gsum rgyan mchog).

Training under Ngawang Nyendrak, Lozang Jampal and Gyalwang Chöjé Lozang Trinlé Namgyal is recorded. Tatsak 09, O Rö Shyab Drung Lozang Tenpé Gyaltsen and Pema Tendzin are recorded as having studied under Dalai Lama 10 Tsultrim Gyatso. The recorded working language is Chinese. Positions recorded include Dalai Lama.

• Name — 10th Dalai Lama, Tsultrim Gyatso • Religion — Tibetan Buddhism • Title — His Holiness the 10th Dalai Lama • Period — 1816–1837 • Predecessor — 9th Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso • Successor — 11th Dalai Lama. Khedrup Gyatso • Father — Lobzang Nyendrak • Mother — Namgyel Butri • Born — 25 or 26 May 1816 • Birthplace — Lithang, Kham, Tibet • Died — 30 September 1837 • Place of death — Lhasa, Ü-Tsang, Tibet