Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen | |
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སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན། | |
Personal | |
Died | Lhasa |
Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
School | Gelug |
Other names | Drakpa Gyeltsen (གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།), Zimkhang Gongma Drakpa Gyeltsen (གཟིམས་ཁང་གོང་མ་༤་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན), Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen (སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།), Kyorlung Ngari Trülku 06 (སྐྱོར་ལུང་མངའ་རིས་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་༦). |
Organization | |
Temple | Drepung Monastery |
Senior posting | |
Period in office | 17th century |
Reincarnation | Ngakwang Sönam Gélek Pelzang |
Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen (1619–1656) was an important Gelugpa lama and a contemporary of the 5th Dalai Lama (1617–1682). His Seat was the upper residence (Wylie: gzims khang gong ma) of Drepung Monastery, a famous Gelug gompa located near Lhasa. [1][2]