The Gandain Chipa is the overall abbot of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Tubdain Kungar was the 96th abbot of the Gandain Monastery after Zongkapa and Chairman of the Tibet branch of the Buddhist Association of China. In the picture, Gandain Chipa Tubdain Kungar delivers a sermon at the square of the Jokhang Monastery.(1957) |