In this podcast, Samten Yeshi, Masters student at Central European University's History Department,  presents the life of Tibet's sixth Dalai Lama through his famous composition of poems which is sung as songs among his Tibetan subjects.  His poems reflect an autobiographical account of his life expressed through an artistic composition of melodious poems. The sixth Dalai Lama known as Rigzin Tsangyang Gyatsho lived from 1683 to 1706.  

References:

1. Desi Sangay Gyatsho, Biography of sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatsho (in Tibetan scripts)

2. Treasury of Lives: https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Sixth-Dalai-Lama/TBRC_P352

3. Some Poems of the 6th Dalai Lama: http://tibetwrites.in/index.html%3FSome-poems-of-the-Sixth-Dalai-Lama.html

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