Editing Tulku (section)

=== Lineage of the Dalai Lamas===
{{main|Dalai Lama}}
[[File:Tsongkapa, thangka from Tibet in the 15th-century, painting on cloth - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Tsongkapa, 15th-century painting, [[Rubin Museum of Art]] ]]
Gendun Drup (1391–1474), a disciple of the founder [[Je Tsongkhapa|Je Tsongkapa]],<ref name="陈庆英2005_p15">{{cite book|author=陈庆英|title=达赖喇嘛转世及历史定制英|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haMIsdC3iZwC&pg=PA15|year=2005|publisher=五洲传播出版社|isbn=978-7-5085-0745-3|pages=16–}}</ref> was the ordination name of the monk who came to be known as the '[[First Dalai Lama]]', but only from 104 years after he died.{{sfn|Richardson|1984|pp=40–41}} There had been resistance, since first he was ordained a monk in the Kadampa tradition{{sfn|Shakabpa|1967|p={{page needed|date=November 2023}}}} and for various reasons, for hundreds of years the Kadampa school had eschewed the adoption of the ''tulku'' system to which the older schools adhered.{{sfn|Mullin|2001|p=87}} [[Tsongkhapa]] largely modelled his new, reformed [[Gelugpa]] school on the Kadampa tradition and refrained from starting a tulku system.{{sfn|Mullin|2001|pp=94–95}} Therefore, although Gendun Drup grew to be a very important Gelugpa lama, after he died in 1474 there was no question of any search being made to identify his incarnation.{{sfn|Mullin|2001|p=87}}

Despite this, when the Tashilhunpo monks started hearing what seemed credible accounts that an incarnation of Gendun Drup had appeared nearby and repeatedly announced himself from the age of two, their curiosity was aroused.{{sfn|Mullin|2001|pp=90–95}} It was some 55 years after Tsongkhapa's death when eventually, the monastic authorities saw compelling evidence that convinced them the child in question was indeed the incarnation of their founder. They felt obliged to break with their own tradition and in 1487, the boy was renamed [[Gendun Gyatso]] and installed at Tashilhunpo as Gendun Drup's tulku, albeit informally.{{sfn|Mullin|2001|pp=95–96}}

Gendun Gyatso died in 1542 and the lineage of Dalai Lama tulkus finally became firmly established when the third incarnation, [[3rd Dalai Lama|Sonam Gyatso]] (1543–1588), came forth. He made himself known as the ''tulku'' of Gendun Gyatso and was formally recognised and enthroned at Drepung in 1546.{{sfn|Mullin|2001|pp=137–8}} When Gendun Gyatso was given the titular name "Dalai Lama" by the Tümed [[Altan Khan]] in 1578,{{sfn|Tagliacozzo|2015|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rKLrBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT153 153]}} his two predecessors were accorded the title posthumously and he became known as the third in the lineage.{{sfn|Richardson|1984|pp=40–41}}