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'Tsultrim Gyatso' (1816 – September 1837) was the 10th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Of a modest family in Chamdo (eastern Tibet), he was recognised as the reincarnation of the 9th Dalai Lama in 1820. At the time his family did not even have an heir to their land, but he took the name Tsultrim Gyatso and was enthroned at the Potala Palace in 1822. He studied Tibetan Buddhist texts extensively during the rest of his life, but was always in poor health and his death at a very young age was not altogether unexpected.
During his reign there were very few notable changes in the Tibetan government. However, many historians see this period as "cementing" the lamas policy of isolating Tibet from the rest of the world.