Map of the origin of the Dalai Lama – Tsangyang Gyatso Thangka

[Dalai Lama Origin Map – Tsangyang Gyatso Thangka]

Dalai Lama Origin Map – Tsangyang Gyatso Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, Buben, colored, 140 cm high, 73 cm wide, 72 cm vertical and 46 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The sixth Dalai Lama, Cangyang Gyatso (1683-1706), was born in Yusong, southern Tibet. In the 36th year of Kangxi’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1697), he was selected as the reincarnated spiritual child of the 5th Dalai Lama by the then regent Basang Jiejiacuo. He worshipped the 5th Panchen Lama as his teacher and sat down in the Potala Palace. In 1705, in the forty-fourth year of Kangxi’s reign, in the conflict between the Tibet ruling Mongol Erut Razang Khan and the Teresan Gyatso, the Razang Khan killed the Teresan Gyatso, and asked the Emperor Kangxi to depose the sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso. The following year, the sixth Dalai Lama died on the way to Beijing by the Qinghai Lake. Since then, the central government has not recognized him as the sixth Dalai Lama, and has always called Gesangatso (the seventh Dalai Lama) the sixth Dalai Lama. It was not until the middle of Qianlong’s reign that Tsangyang Gyatso was acquiesced as the sixth Dalai Lama by the central government. Cangyang Gyatso is also a renowned poet. His “Cangyang Gyatso Love Song” is widely sung in Tibet
In the middle of the picture, Tsangyang Gyatsuo holds the Dharma wheel with his left hand and makes a statement with his right hand. The upper left shows the image of his teacher, the fifth Panchen Lama, the lower is the image of Vajrayana’s mother, the upper right is the image of his practicing Buddha’s mother, and the lower right is the protection law of Hongyong. On the back of the Thangka, there is a white silk label with a four-body inscription in Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan. The Chinese text is: “On the sixth day of March of the 26th year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor ordered Zhang Jiahu to recognize the origin of the Dalai Lama.

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