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He is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth , being the key religious and temporal leader of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet. He is credited with unifying all of Tibet under the Ganden Phodrang , after Gushri Khan 's successful military interventions. As an independent head of state, he established priest and patron relations with both Mongolia and the Qing dynasty simultaneously, [ 1 ] and had positive relations with other neighboring countries.

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He began the custom of meeting early European explorers. The 5th Dalai Lama built the Potala Palace, and also wrote 24 volumes' worth of scholarly and religious works on a wide range of subjects. Tagten Tulku, a. The child's father, Dudul Rabten, was arrested in for his involvement in a plot to overthrow Karma Phuntsok Namgyal , leader of the Tsang hegemony.

Tseten Dorje had rebelled against the heirs of Ngawang Namgyel starting in , eventually overthrowing the Rinpung and establishing the Tsang hegemony in by declaring himself King of Tsang. The secular government of King Tseten Dorje and his descendants enjoyed general support from the Sakya , Jonang , and Kagyu schools, while maintaining somewhat tense but cordial relations with his Gelug neighbours at Tashilhunpo.

In —78 Sonam Gyatso accepted, went there and converted him and his subjects to Buddhism, receiving the Mongolian name "Dalai" in the process by which action his lineage became known as the "Dalai Lamas" and he became the 3rd Dalai Lama. His two predecessors became known as the 1st and 2nd Dalai Lamas posthumously. The Samdruptse government saw this development as a politico-religious alliance between the Gelugpa and a foreign power.

When Sonam Gyatso died, the Gelugpa recognised a Mongolian prince as his incarnation and so a Mongolian 4th Dalai Lama , Yonten Gyatso — , was installed as the abbot of Drepung. This increased Mongolian involvement with the Gelugpa even further and enabled more Mongolian intervention in Tibetan affairs.

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As a result, King Tseten Dorje's suspicions about Gelugpa ambitions rose and when in the 4th Dalai Lama died young, at the age of 28, in an attempt to defeat the process the King prohibited the Gelugpa monks from searching for his incarnation. Dudul Rabten escaped his captors and tried to reach eastern Tibet, but was rearrested. Dudul Rabten died in captivity in at Samdruptse — Karma Phuntsok Namgyal's castle also known as Shigatse — and thus, he never lived to see his son again.