RELIGIOUS FIGURE

6th Dalai Lama

1683 - 1706

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The 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ, Wylie: tshangs-dbyangs rgya-mtsho, ZYPY: Cangyang Gyamco; 1 March 1683 – after 1706), 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 kidnapped and deposed by the Koshut Lha-bzang Khan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of 6th Dalai Lama has received more than 457,729 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). 6th Dalai Lama is the 696th most popular religious figure (up from 1,058th in 2019).

The 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, is most famous for his poems and songs.

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  • 64.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, 6th Dalai Lama ranks 696 out of 3,187. Before him are Célestin Freinet, Tarcisio Bertone, Said Nursî, Abdullah ibn Saba', Abe no Seimei, and Scholastica. After him are Pancras of Rome, Lydia of Thyatira, Martin de Porres, Gertrude the Great, Antipas of Pergamum, and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, 6th Dalai Lama ranks 6. Before him are Philip V of Spain, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Caroline of Ansbach, George II of Great Britain, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. After him are Maria Anna of Austria, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Gottfried Silbermann, Christoph Graupner, and Edward Young. Among people deceased in 1706, 6th Dalai Lama ranks 4. Before him are Johann Pachelbel, Pierre Bayle, and Peter II of Portugal. After him are Kimpa Vita, Arsenije III Čarnojević, Andreas Werckmeister, Rahman Baba, Georg Joseph Kamel, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Ferdinand de Marsin, and Godfried Schalcken.

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