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          Gedun Drupa was born in a cow-shed in Gyurmey Rupa near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet, the son of Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha..

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          Gendün Drubpa
          དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ།

          དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ།

          ReligionTibetan Buddhism
          Personal
          BornPéma Dorjee
          1391
          Shabtod, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
          Died1474 (aged 82–83)
          Ü-Tsang, Tibet
          Parents
          • Gonpo Dorjee (father)
          • Jomo Namkha Kyi (mother)
          Senior posting
          Title1st Dalai Lama (posthumous designation)
          SuccessorGedun Gyatso

          Gendün Drubpa (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ་པ།, Wylie: dge 'dun grub pa; 1391–1474) was considered posthumously to be the 1st Dalai Lama.

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          Gedun Drupa, 1st Dalai Lama

          Gedun Drupa was born in a cow-shed in Gyurmey Rupa near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet, the son of Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha Kyi, nomadic tribespeople.

          Gendun Drub was born to a family of nomadic farmers in near Sakya in Tsang.

        1. Gendun Drub was born to a family of nomadic farmers in near Sakya in Tsang.
        2. Gendun Drub, [Tbrc P80], was born to a family of nomadic farmers in the Iron Sheep Year () near Sakya in Tsang.
        3. Gedun Drupa was born in a cow-shed in Gyurmey Rupa near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet, the son of Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha.
        4. A disciple of the great Tsongkhapa, is known as the First Dalai Lama.
        5. The First Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa, was born in in Gyurmey Rupa, near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet to Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha Kyi, a.

          6. He was raised as a shepherd until the age of seven. His birth name (according to the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, his personal name) was Péma Dorjee (Tibetan: པད་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་, "Vajra Lotus"). Later he was placed in Narthang Monastery.