3rd Dalai Lama (English Wikipedia)

Schwieger 2014, p. 33: "Although the Mongolian word dalai is equivalent to the Tibetan word gyats+o, meaning 'ocean', and would therefore seem to refer to this component in the names of the Dalai Lamas (except for the first one), it was constructed in analogy to the older Mongolian title dalai-yin-qan, 'Ocean Qan'". Schwieger, Peter (2014). The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: a political history of the Tibetan institution of reincarnation. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-53860-2. OCLC 905914446.
Andrei A. Znamenski (2003). Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology. Psychology Press. pp. 246–. ISBN 978-0-415-31192-2.
历史的见证. 五洲传播出版社. 2001. ISBN 978-7-80113-884-2.

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"Mahayana Buddhism: Mongolian Buddhism". www.buddhanet.net. Retrieved 2024-03-25.

"tbrc.org: dge 'dun rgya mtsho". Archived from the original on 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2008-11-04.

http://www.tibetology.ac.cn/2023-11/24/content_42609192.htm “朵儿只唱”图记是一枚明代象牙图章，方形印面，配以狮钮，高6.1厘米、边长5.2厘米，原收藏于西藏罗布林卡，现收藏于西藏博物馆 The "Duo'er Zhichang" seal is an ivory seal from the Ming Dynasty. It has a square seal face and a lion button. It is 6.1 cm high and 5.2 cm long. It was originally collected in the Norbulingka in Tibet and is now collected in the Tibet Museum.

"tbrc.org: dge 'dun rgya mtsho". Archived from the original on 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
"Buddha Relic was introduced to the public". Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2013-10-20.

Schwieger 2014, p. 33: "Although the Mongolian word dalai is equivalent to the Tibetan word gyats+o, meaning 'ocean', and would therefore seem to refer to this component in the names of the Dalai Lamas (except for the first one), it was constructed in analogy to the older Mongolian title dalai-yin-qan, 'Ocean Qan'". Schwieger, Peter (2014). The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: a political history of the Tibetan institution of reincarnation. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-53860-2. OCLC 905914446.
Alex McKay, ed. (2003). The history of Tibet. London: RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0-7007-1508-8. OCLC 50494840.

http://www.xzmuseum.cn/2022/01/29/4c422b5112c04aacae89e2eda9d7af3c.html 有藏文史料里记载，“明朝于万历十五年（1587年），遣使臣在内蒙，敕封索南嘉措为‘朵尔只唱’，并邀请他入京面圣。” The Tibetan historical materials recorded that "In the 15th year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1587), the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to Inner Mongolia to confer the title of 'Dorjichang' on Sonam Gyatso and invited him to Beijing to meet the emperor."