6th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu

The 6th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu (1842–1848), was the sixth incarnation of the

Jebtsundamba Khutuktu The Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, , ; zh, c=哲布尊丹巴呼圖克圖, p=Zhébùzūn Dānbā Hūtúkètú; bo, རྗེ་བཙུན་དམ་པ་ཧུ་ཐུག་ཐུ་, Jetsün Dampa Hutuktu; "Venerable Excellent incarnate lama" ar ...

, the spiritual heads of the

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lineage of

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, and the fourth of Tibetan descent. He was the second Jebtsundamba Khutuktu selected by the lottery procedure of the Golden urn. His personal name was ''Luvsantüvdenchoyjijaltsan'' and his Tibetan ceremonial name ''Blo-bzang-dpal-ldan-bstan-pa''. The son of local donkey herders from Tibet, he was found and determined by monks after the death of the previous (fifth) Jebtsundamba Khutughtu to be the sixth incarnation. After his selection at the age of five he was sent to Urga, present-day

Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar (; mn, Улаанбаатар, , "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia. It is the coldest capital city in the world, on average. The municipality is located in north ce ...

. He died there of

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after only 59 days. His remains were kept in Urga at the Dambadarjaa monastery. News of his death was first sent to the Chinese emperor Daoguang who then forwarded the message to

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level city, prefecture-level Lhasa (prefecture-level city), Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Regio ...

along with the assignment to select a new reincarnation. Until 1793 this message was given directly to the Dalai Lama; who was at that time the amban in Tibet. After several months, a Mongolian delegation departed Urga for Lhasa to attend the selection process. After the final choice for the new Jebtsundamba Khutuktu was made, a part of the delegation returned to Urga to announce the news. Then, another large delegation from Urga was sent to Tibet to supervise the new incarnation on his inaugural journey from Tibet to Mongolia. 1842 births 1848 deaths Jebtsundamba Khutuktus Qing dynasty Tibetan Buddhists {{Buddhist-clergy-stub