The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or " Yellow Hat " branch of Tibetan Buddhism.

* 2008 – Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school ( b. 1930 )

The Tibetan Buddhist lama Chögyam Trungpa emphasizes that cessation is a personal experience.

There is a general sense in which any Tibetan Buddhist teacher is called a lama.

* April 10 – After several invitations by the Yongle Emperor of China since 1403, the fifth Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the lama Deshin Shekpa, finally visits the Ming Dynasty capital, then at Nanjing.

The consolidation of Bhutan occurred in 1616 when Ngawanag Namgyal, a lama from western Tibet known as the Shabdrung Rinpoche, defeated three Tibetan invasions, subjugated rival religious schools, codified the Tsa Yig, an intricate and comprehensive system of law, and established himself as ruler over a system of ecclesiastical and civil administrators.

Buddhism would not see a true revival in Chinese society until the Mongol rule of the Yuan Dynasty, with Kublai Khan's sponsorship of Tibetan Buddhism and Drogön Chögyal Phagpa as the leading lama.

The town has many other privately owned emporiums which deal with thangkas, paintings, masks, brassware, antique jewellery, painted lama tables known as choektse, drums, Tibetan violins and so forth.

In Tibetan Buddhism, an enlightened spiritual teacher ( lama ) may choose to reincarnate after death in order to continue to help people.

This city is also home for the renowned Tibetan lama Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, his family and his Ligmincha Institute.

In Tibetan, he said, the operative word is lama which means ' guru '.

lama nampa shyi ) in Tibetan Buddhism:

* Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche a lama ( Tibetan Buddhist religious teacher ).

Tibetan Buddhism use the tulku system, an ancient way of finding the reincarnation of a previous deceased lama: they are usually young boys, sometimes of wealthy and influential families and sometimes of peasant families like the current 14th Dalai Lama, that are found and enthroned as the reincarnation of an enlightened person that has already deceased.

41st Sakya Trizin is the reincarnation of two great Tibetan masters: a Nyingmapa lama known as Apong Terton ( Orgyen Thrinley Lingpa ), who is famous for his Red Tara cycle, and his grandfather, the 39th Kyabgon Sakya Trizin Dhagtshul Thrinley Rinchen ( 1871 – 1936 ).

Like many Tibetan Buddhist groups, the FPMT does not have " members " per se, or elections, but is managed by a self-perpetuating board of trustees chosen by its " spiritual director " ( head lama ).

Predecessor of Andernach chess was Tibetan chess, in which a black unit ( called lama ) changes colour when it captures a white piece of a different type.

However, in May 1881, this Lama sold Kinthup as a slave to another Tibetan lama.

This drew the attention of Kunga Dorje Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama who had been protecting the last remaining Buddha's tooth relic since the destruction of Namgyal Monastery in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution.

In Tibetan Buddhism, a tulku (, also tülku, trulku ) is a particular high-ranking lama ( e. g., the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama, the Karmapa ) who can choose the manner of his ( or her ) rebirth.

The Tibetan institution of the tulku as the emanation ( often misunderstood as the rebirth ) of a lama developed during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, as various Schools of Tibetan Buddhism began to accept the possibility that exemplary figures might remain within the human world as institutional teachers, manifesting from one lifetime to the next out of compassion.

Perhaps the most religiously significant such tulku is Tenzin Ösel ( born 1985 ), the child of Spanish parents, who has been recognized as the reincarnation of Thubten Yeshe, an influential Tibetan lama.

It should be borne in mind, that Evans-Wentz never studied the Tibetan language and that the lama who did the main translation work for him was of the Gelukpa Sect and is not known to have actually studied or practiced Dzogchen.

** Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism ( d. 1419 )

* date unknown – Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism ( b. 1357 )

The Gelug or Gelug-pa ( or dGe Lugs Pa, dge-lugs-pa, or Dgelugspa ), also known as the Yellow Hat sect, is a school of Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 ), a philosopher and Tibetan religious leader.

Je Tsongkhapa, who founded the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, is said to have received his teachings from visions of Mañjuśrī.

Amdo was and is the home for many important Tibetan Buddhist monks ( or lamas ), scholars who had a major influence on both politics and religious development of Tibet like the 14th Dalai Lama, the 10th Panchen Lama, and the great reformer Je Tsongkhapa.

The term New Kadampa () is a synonym for the 14th century Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism, as founded by Je Tsongkhapa ( rje tsong kha pa ).

According to the NKT-IKBU, it is Tibetan in its antecedents and follows the teachings of the historic, " Old " Kadampa and the " New Kadam " Tradition of Je Tsongkhapa, the latter of which became the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

" In creating a new synthesis of Buddhist doctrine, ethics and practice, Je Tsongkhapa endeavored " to rid Tibetan of its pre-Buddhist shamanic elements ," and the NKT-IKBU sees itself as continuing to keep Tsongkhapa's unique form of Buddhism free of non-Buddhist teachings and practices.

" The NKT-IKBU disagrees that there is a contradiction, saying " It is possible to be a follower of Je Tsongkhapa's lineage but not a Tibetan Buddhist, just as a child of Russian immigrants to America may consider themselves American but not Russian.

With forest land allotted by the Government of India, two arms of the Sera Monastery, representing the migrant monks of the Tibetan Sera Je and Sera Me colleges were established ; 193 Sera je monks got and 107 monks of Sera Me got an allotment of the balance area.

Altan khan chose the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism ( founded by Tsongkhapa, 1357-1419 ).

Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 ), whose name means “ The Man from Onion Valley ”, was a famous teacher of Tibetan Buddhism whose activities led to the formation of the Geluk school.

Tsongkhapa heard Buddha ’ s teachings from masters of all Tibetan Buddhist traditions, and received lineages transmitted in the major schools.

Tsongkhapa was one of the foremost authorities of Tibetan Buddhism at the time.

The child, often referred to as Jamgon Yangsi, had been born the son of His Eminence Beru Khyentse Rinpoche on the 17th of December, 1995 in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal on the anniversary of the birth of Tsongkhapa ( the 25th of the Tibetan month ).

But above all visiting, in addition to Xizang ( Tibet ), large areas of other Tibetan Autonomous Regions in Gansu ( the monasteries of the Gelugpas ( Yellow Hats ) in Labrang and Langmu-Si, the famous Buddha caves of Bingling-Si on the Yellow River ), in Qinghai ( Gelugpa complex of Kumbum, the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, monasteries of Rebkong / Tongren etc.

In defining the movement in this way, the organisation is not simply maintaining that it represents Buddhism adapted for westerners ; it is also striving to underline its separation from the Tibetan Gelug sect and emphasise the point that the West – via the NKT – is now the guardian and custodian of the pure tradition of Tsongkhapa in the modern world.

:"... we generally only invite teachers who are in the Tibetan Gelug tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa.

Keutsang Hermitage ( Ke ’ u tshang ri khrod ) was a precariously perched cave hermitage inhabited by the great Tibetan guru Tsongkhapa.

As interpreted by Tibetan writers such as Tsongkhapa, the Prāsangika / Svātantrika distinction involved not only issues of logic, but also affected the two schools ' respective understandings of sunyata (" emptiness ").