Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama
Sonam Gyatso (1543 – 1588) was the first officially recognized Dalai Lama by the Mongolians, who gave this teacher the name Dalai Lama, a combination of the Mongolian Dalai meaning “ocean” and the Tibetan honorific lama, “teacher”. Comibined they imply “ocean of wisdom teacher”. Sonam Gyatso, a monk of the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) school of Buddhism, was responsible for finding...