Gelug

Proper noun

Meaning

Gelug

a school of Buddhism founded by Tsongkhapa, a philosopher and Tibetan religious leader.

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As he grew older, Karma Kagyu adherents, finding their sect was losing too many recruits to the monkhood to burgeoning Gelugpa monasteries, tried to contain Gelug expansion by launching military expeditions against them in the region. Source: Internet

Another common but trivial differentiation is into the Yellow Hat (Gelug) and Red Hat (non-Gelug) sects, a division that mirrors the distinction between the schools involved in the Rimé movement versus the one that did not, the Gelug. Source: Internet

At 17, when fighting broke out in Lhasa between Gelug and Kagyu parties and efforts by local lamas to mediate failed, Sonam Gyatso negotiated a peaceful settlement. Source: Internet

The correspondences are as follows: Jonang The Jonang is a minor school that branched off from Sakya traditions; it was suppressed in 1650 in Gelug-controlled regions and subsequently banned and its monks and nuns converted to the Gelug school in 1658. Source: Internet

Yale University Press 2011, page 129, "Gelug: the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism". Source: Internet

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