Tibet / འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ (Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama)

Trinley Gyatso, also spelled Trinle Gyatso and Thinle Gyatso, was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Trinley Gyatso was born in 1856 in Lhoka, a place near Lhasa to Phuntsok Tsewang and Tsering Yudon.

In 1858, the young boy as Dalai Lama was escorted to Lhasa where Reting Ngawang Yeshi Tsultrim Gyaltsen, the regent gave him the name Thupten Gyatso. In 1860, at the age of five he took the novice vows of monkhood from the Gaden Throne Holder Lobsang Khenrab and he was enthroned in the Potala Palace. In 1873, at the age of eighteen, he took on full responsibility as both spiritual and political leader of Tibet. In 1875, he died at the age of twenty in the Potala Palace.