Editing 1st Dalai Lama (section)

=== Ordination ===
Later he was placed in [[Narthang Monastery]]. In 1405, he took his ''[[śrāmaṇera|getsul]]'' (novitiate) vows from the abbot of Narthang, Khenchen Drupa Sherap.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} When he was 20 years old, in about 1411 received the name Gedun Drupa upon taking the vows of a ''[[bhikkhu|bhikṣu]]'' (monk) from the abbot of Narthang Monastery.{{sfnp|Samphel|Tendar|2004|p=75}} Also at this age he became a student of the scholar and reformer [[Je Tsongkhapa]] (1357–1419),{{sfnp|Farrer-Halls|1998|p=77}} who some say was his uncle.{{Sfnp|Samphel|Tendar|2004|p=35}} Around this time he also became the first abbot of [[Ganden Monastery]], founded by Tsongkhapa himself in 1409.<ref>{{Citation |title=Simhanada, The Lion's Roar of Mahayana Buddhism |url=http://www.simhas.org/ |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711005439/http://www.simhas.org/ |archive-date=11 July 2016}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2023}}