Lobsang Pelden Tenpe Dronme
Buddhist clergy
Intro | Buddhist clergy | |
Places | Taiwan | |
is | Cleric Buddhist monk | |
Work field | Religion | |
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Birth | Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County | |
Death | 4 March 1957Taiwan |
Lobsang Pelden Tenpe Dronme (Chinese: 羅桑般殿丹畢蓉梅, Luósāng Bāndiàn Dānbì Róngméi; Tibetan: ལཅང་སྐྱ་བལོ་བཟང་དཔལ་ལདན་བསྟན་པའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་, Wylie: lcang skya blo bzang dpal ldan bstan pa'i sgron me) born 1890 in Datong, Qinghai - died March 4, 1957 in Taipei, Taiwan was a clergyman of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and the 7th Changkya Khutukhtu. He was the highest person of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia and the fourth highest lamas of Tibetan Buddhism in general. He supported the Kuomintang and accompanied the Republic of China Government to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. He was awarded titles by the Kuomintang and also received living expenses until his death.