Gelug
A living tradition within Vajrayāna. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Gelug is a living tradition within Vajrayāna. Also written Dge lugs pa, Gelugpa, Yellow Hats.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Tsongkhapa (1357–1419). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. All three sources agree on Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) as founder. Calkowski places the school in the late 14th century and notes it stressed monastic discipline and later dominated Tibet politically; the Encyclopedia.com entry records the founding of Ganden monastery in 1409 and the association with the Dalai Lama lineage. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions calls it the Gelugpa 'reform' of Tsongkhapa. No founding year for the school as such is given.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Gelug.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-gelug.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Gelug},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-gelug},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.