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The Trust of Dalai Lama - Gaden Phodrang
July 10 , 2025
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- The 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala at Himachal Pradesh asserted for the first time that the line will continue after him.
- The succession or the 15th Dalai Lama would be decided by the Gaden Phodrang Trust.
- It cites a Qing dynasty tradition of picking the Dalai Lama’s successor through lots from a “Golden Urn”.
- Dalai Lama has lived in India since 1959.
- He fled Lhasa in Tibet years after the Chinese annexed Tibet in 1951.
- Gaden Phodrang was the name of the Tibetan government.
- It was established by the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso or ‘the Great Fifth’, as both the Spiritual and Political head of a unified Tibet.
- It was coined from the name of the historical estate of the Dalai Lamas at the Drepung Monastery.
- In 2011, the 14th Dalai Lama set up the Gaden Phodrang Trust as he decided to separate the Spiritual and Political powers of his post.
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