Lobsang Pelden Tenpe Dronme (Tibetan: ལྕང་སྐྱ་བློ་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་བསྟན་པའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་, Wylie: lcang skya blo bzang dpal ldan bstan pa'i sgron me, Chinese: 羅桑般殿丹畢蓉梅; pinyin: Luósāng Bāndiàn Dānbì Róngméi) (born 1890 in Datong, Qinghai - died March 4, 1957, in Taipei, Taiwan) was a clergyman of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and the 7th Changkya Khutukhtu. He was the highest person of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia and the fourth highest lamas of Tibetan Buddhism in general. He supported the Kuomintang and accompanied the Republic of China Government to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. He was awarded titles by the Kuomintang and also received living expenses until his death.
After his death, his residence in Taipei was converted in February 1993 into the Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center, which includes a memorial to him.
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Preceded byChangkya Lozang Tendzin Gyeltsen | Changkya Khutukhtu 1891 – 1957 |
VacantTitle next held byChangkya Tendzin Dönyö Yéshé Gyatso |
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- Changkya Khutukhtus
- Tibetan Buddhists from Taiwan
- Chinese people of Mongolian descent
- Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teachers
- Gelug Lamas
- 1957 deaths
- Republic of China politicians from Qinghai
- Senior advisors to President Chiang Kai-shek
- 1890 births
- People from Xining
- Chinese emigrants to Taiwan
- Taiwanese people of Mongolian descent