Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (born 1683)

6th Dalai Lama

Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1697 to 1706

The 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, was recognized as the 6th Dalai Lama after a delay of many years, permitting the Potala Palace to be completed. He was an unconventional Dalai Lama that preferred a Nyingma school yogi's life to that of an ordained monk. He was later…