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3rd Dalai Lama

1543 - 1588

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The 3rd Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso (Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: bsod nams rgya mtsho, ZYPY: Soinam Gyaco; 1543–1588), was the first in the tulku lineage to be entitled formally as the Dalai Lama. In 1578 Altan Khan presented the spiritual title of Dalai Lama, in honor of Sonam Gyatso's profound teachings conferred in Mongolia, which soon became a Tibetan Buddhist country. He founded Kumbum Monastery, Lithang Monastery, and Namgyal Monastery. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of 3rd Dalai Lama has received more than 299,000 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). 3rd Dalai Lama is the 2,840th most popular politician (up from 2,856th in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from China (down from 219th in 2019) and the 139th most popular Chinese Politician.

The third Dalai Lama is most famous for being the first Dalai Lama to be born in Tibet.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, 3rd Dalai Lama ranks 2,840 out of 19,576. Before him are Ḫattušili I, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Tiridates III of Armenia, Ptolemy Keraunos, Servilia, and Qazi Muhammad. After him are Nicola Amati, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi, Joseph Babinski, Felipe González, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1543, 3rd Dalai Lama ranks 2. Before him is Domenico Fontana. After him are William Byrd, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Claudio Acquaviva, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Christine of Hesse, Kanō Eitoku, Giovanni Bembo, Michele Ruggieri, and Giovanni de' Medici. Among people deceased in 1588, 3rd Dalai Lama ranks 5. Before him are Mimar Sinan, Paolo Veronese, Frederick II of Denmark, and Henry I, Duke of Guise. After him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Qi Jiguang, Henri, Prince of Condé, Bernardino Telesio, Johann Weyer, Abtai Sain Khan, and Alonso Sánchez Coello.

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In China

Among people born in China, 3rd Dalai Lama ranks 224 out of 1,610. Before him are Charles K. Kao (1933), Diaochan (null), Guan Zhong (-720), Tao Yuanming (365), Jin Yong (1924), and Wei Yan (200). After him are Zhang Xueliang (1901), Zu Chongzhi (429), Wong Kar-wai (1958), Emperor Ming of Han (28), Bi Sheng (990), and Kanishka (78).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, 3rd Dalai Lama ranks 139. Before him are Empress Xiaoyichun (1727), Liu Bian (176), Emperor Qianshao of Han (-150), Emperor Suzong of Tang (711), Diaochan (null), and Wei Yan (200). After him are Zhang Xueliang (1901), Emperor Ming of Han (28), Kanishka (78), Wang Xizhi (303), Emperor Taizu of Jin (1068), and Emperor Yuan of Han (-75).

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