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View of Potala from 5th Dalai Lama's private Lukhang temple, December, 2008. Although the 5th Dalai Lama, Lobsang Gyatso, completed all his formal monastic training as a Gelugpa, proving to be an exceptional scholar, he also studied Nyingmapa doctrines, and took Nyingma tantric empowerments.
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For sixteen years GYATSO LUKHANG (Lord Chamberlain) worked on high profile accounts as an art director in New York advertising agencies. He was also an active member of Tibetan cultural and human rights organizations. He recently opened a fledgling Tibetan restaurant. Gyatso was born in Tibet.
Tenzin Gyatso, as he is named, already has a tendency toward a friendly imperiousness and an eerie sense of his destiny. ... (Master of the Kitchen), Tenzin Trinley (Ling Rinpoche), Gyatso Lukhang ...
Lukhang ( Tibetan: ཀླུ་ཁང, Wylie: klu khang, residence of Nagas ), formally Dzongyab Lukhang ( Tibetan: རྫོང་རྒྱབ་ཀླུ་ཁང, Wylie: rdzong rgyab klu khang ), residence of Nagas, lords of the castle and administered territory [?]) is the name of a secret temple of Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama. Three ...
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Nov 16, 2015 · Once accessible only by boat, the Lukhang (Residence of Nagas), formally Zongdag Lukhang, was used as a private sanctuary for meditation and spiritual practice. It was built on a small island in a lake behind the Potala Palace in the late 17th century, during the reigns of the Fifth Dalai Lama Lobsang Gyatso (r. 1642–82) and the Sixth Dalai ...
Lukhang (Tib. klu khang, residence of Nagas), formally Zongdag Lukhang (Tib. rdzong bdag klu khang , residence of Nagas, lords of the castle and administered territory ) is the name of a secret temple of Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama. Three walls of the temple are covered with murals of yogis engaged in their exercises.
The Dalai Lamas are a tulku lineage that has played a central role in Tibetan history for the last five hundred years. In 1577 a Mongol khan gave the Geluk monk Sonam Gyatso (1543–1588) the title “Dalai Lama,” combining the Mongolian word for ocean, dalai (a reference to the depth of his knowledge), and the Tibetan word for guru, lama.
