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Gelugpa

Tibetan Buddhist tradition founded by Tsongkhapa Lozang Dragpa (1357–1419). The Dalai Lama is always a member of this tradition, though the actual head of the tradition is always the head abbot of the Ganden monastery, founded by Tsongkhapa.

The tradition follows a strict reading of the Vinaya (monastic rules laid down in the Tripitaka, Buddhist scriptures). Gelugpa monks follow a celibate, monastic way of life and undertake extensive philosophical scholarship. Tsongkhapa also taught that there was a graded path to enlightenment which the tradition is able to teach.
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He is a practicing member of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as the world's most famous Buddhist monk, and as exiled leader of the Tibetan government in Dharamsala, India.
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He gives a lot of mostly approving words to Buddhism of the Tibetan Gelug variety, and has interesting asides on Catholicism, too, though of a more negative kind.
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In July 2004 authorities permitted resumption of the Geshe Lharampa examinations, the highest religious examination in the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddism, at Lhasa's Jokhang Temple for the first time in 16 years.
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