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Gaden Phodrang Trust

July 6 , 2025 15 hrs 0 min 49 0

The 14th Dalai Lama have announced “that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue” and that the Gaden Phodrang Trust shall be the “sole authority to recognise the future reincarnation”.
The term Gaden Phodrang refers to the residential quarters of the Dalai Lama lineage from the second Dalai Lama onward at Drepung Monastery in Lhasa.
After the Potala Palace was built (by a decree of the fifth Dalai Lama), the Dalai Lamas moved away from these quarters.
He stayed at Potala Palace in winter and Norbulingka (built by the seventh Dalai Lama about 100 years after Potala) in summer.
This tradition was followed until the 14th Dalai Lama escaped from Lhasa to India in March 1959.
The Zurich-registered Gaden Phodrang Trust is one of the three institutions associated with the Dalai Lama.
The other two are Gaden Phodrang Trust, which is a registered body in India and Dalai Lama Trust, which too is a non-profit organisation.