JEBTSUNDAMBA KHUTUKTU

JEBTSUNDAMBA KHUTUKTU

   

The Jebtsundamba Khutuktu or Khalkha Jetsün Dampa Rinpoche is a title given to the spiritual head of the Gelug lineage of Buddhism in Mongolia. They also hold the title of Bogd Gegeen, making them the top-ranked lama in Mongolia.

The first Jebtsundamba, Zanabazar (1635–1723), was identified as the reincarnation of the scholar Taranatha of the Jonang school of Tibetan Buddhism. Zanabazar was the son of the Tüsheet Khan Gombodorj, ruler of central Khalkha Mongolia, and himself became the spiritual head of the Khalkha Mongols.

Like Zanabazar, the 2nd Jebtsundamba Khutughtu was a member of Mongolia's highest nobility and direct descendant of Genghis Khan. After Chingünjav's rebellion and the demise of the second Jebtsundamba Khutugtu, the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty decreed in 1758 that all future reincarnations were to be found from among the population of Tibet.

When the region of Outer Mongolia declared independence from the Qing dynasty in 1911, the eighth Jebtsundamba (1869–1924) was elevated to theocratic ruler, called Bogd Khan and established the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia.

A 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu was installed by the 14th Dalai Lama as the head of a reinvigorated Jonang lineage. He was born Jampal Namdol Chökyi Gyaltsen in 1932 and he died in early 2012.



Bogdo gegeen (Mongolian and ceremonial Tibetan language names)
  • 1635–1723: Ondor Gegeen Zanabazar  1st Jebtsundamba Khutughtu
  • 1724–1757: Luvsandambiydonmi  2nd Jebtsundamba Khutughtu
  • 1758–1773: Ishdambiynyam  3rd Jebtsundamba Khutughtu
  • 1775–1813: Luvsantüvdenvanchug  4th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu
  • 1815–1841: Luvsanchültimjigmed  5th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu
  • 1843–1848: Luvsantüvdenchoyjijaltsan 6th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu
  • 1850–1868: Agvaanchoyjivanchugperenlaijamts 7th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu[citation needed]
  • 1870–20 May 1924: Agvaanluvsanchoyjindanzanvaanchigbalsambuu  8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu and Bogd Khan[citation needed]
  • 1936–1 March 2012: Jambalnamdolchoyjijantsan (Jampal Namdrol Chokye Gyeltsen), 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu (b. 1933; from 1991, recognized by the Dalai Lama; exile in Tibet to 1959, then in India; died in Ulaanbaatar)
  • Current: 10th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu - In Nov 2016, during a visit to Mongolia, the 14th Dalai Lama announced his belief that the 10th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu had been reborn in Mongolia and that a process for identifying him had begun. On March 8, 2023, at a ceremony in Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama announced the presence at the ceremony of the 10th Jebtsundamba Khutuktu.

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