The Ninth Jebtsun Damba Khutughtu (January 6, 1932 – March 1, 2012) was the 9th reincarnation of the Jebtsun Kunka Drilchuk and the 10th reincarnation of  Jebtsun Tāranātha, the third-highest lama in the Tibetan Buddhism hierarchy and the spiritual leader of the Geluk lineage among the Khalkha Mongols.  The Ninth Jetsun Dampa was renowned for twenty-three reincarnations. As an Indian for four times, Mongolian for four times and Tibetan for seventeen times according to a Jonangpa’s source. Those twenty-three reincarnations include the learned scholars and accomplished practitioners such as Indian Mahasiddha Krishnacharya, Nyingma Lama Rongzom Chosang,  Barom Kagyupa Dharma Wangchuk, Geluk Joamcho Je, Jonang Kunga Drolchok,m and Jonang Taranatha and so forth. Although recognized as the reincarnation of the Bogd Khan in 1936, his identity was kept a secret by the Dalai Lama until 1990 due to the persecution of the Buddhist religion by the Mongolian People’s Republic and did not reside in Mongolia until the final year of his life. He was born as Jampal Namdol Chökyi Gyaltsen on the tenth day of the eleventh month of Water-Monkey year (6 January 1932) near the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Six months after his birth, his parents separated and his mother left him in the care of his uncle who was a bodyguard of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. The thirteenth Dalai Lama died in December 1933, and Reting Rinpoche became Regent of Tibet until a new Dalai Lama was discovered and crowned. Because of the inability of the Mongolian lamas to proclaim the discovery of the ninth Khutughtu, Reting Rinpoche in 1936, recognized Jampal Namdol Chökyi Gyaltsen, then age four, as the reincarnation of the eighth Jetsun Dhamba Khutughtu, after the boy passed three sets of tests. Due to the complex political situation, his existence was kept a secret. At the age of seven, he entered the Drepung Monastery, but because his identity was kept secret, he could not enter the Khalkha Mitsen but had to follow the life of a common monk. At age 25, he renounced his monastic vows and became a householder, took a wife and had two children. When the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959, Jampal Namdol did also, fearing that his