Editing Dalai Lama (section)

=== Establishment of the Dalai Lama lineage ===
Gendun Drup (1391–1474), a disciple of [[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> would eventually be known as the '[[First Dalai Lama]]', but he would not receive this title until 104 years after he died.<ref name=rich>Richardson 1984, pp. 40–41.</ref>
There was resistance to naming him as such, since he was ordained a monk in the Kadampa tradition<ref name=shak91 /> and for various reasons,{{Explain|reason=what reasons?|date=April 2024}} the Kadampa school had eschewed the adoption of the ''tulku'' system to which the older schools adhered. Therefore, although Gendun Drup grew to be an important Gelugpa lama, there was no search to identify his incarnation after his death in 1474.<ref name="mull87">Mullin 2001, p. 87.</ref>

Despite this, 55 years after Tsongkhapa, the Tashilhunpo monks heard accounts that an incarnation of Gendun Drup had appeared nearby and repeatedly announced himself from the age of two.<ref>Mullin 2001, pp. 90–95.</ref> The monastic authorities saw compelling evidence that convinced them the child in question was indeed the incarnation of their founder and 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.<ref name=mull956>Mullin 2001, pp. 95–96.</ref>

Gendun Gyatso died in 1542, but the lineage of Dalai Lama tulkus became firmly established with the third incarnation, [[3rd Dalai Lama|Sonam Gyatso]] (1543–1588), who was formally recognised and enthroned at Drepung in 1546.<ref>Mullin 2001, p. 137–8.</ref> Gendun Gyatso was given the title "Dalai Lama" by the Tümed [[Altan Khan]] in 1578,<ref name="Tagliacozzo2015">{{cite book|author=Eric Tagliacozzo|title=Asia Inside Out: Changing Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKLrBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT153|date=5 January 2015|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-96694-9}}</ref>{{rp|153}} and his two predecessors were then accorded the title posthumously, making Gendun now the third in the lineage.<ref name=rich />