page_title: Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, 1st Panchen Lama
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, 1st Panchen Lama / Background
caption_attribution_description: The painting depicts Khedrub Geleg Pal Zangpo (1385-1438), a close disciple of Tsong Khapa. It is part of a larger set of Lamrim Lineage paintings in the Geluk tradition. The total number of paintings in the set is unknown, but it possibly exceeds over fifty. The set was likely commissioned in the last half of the 18th century or the first half of the 19th century.
context_page_description: Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, 1st Panchen Lama – better known as Khedrup Je – was one of the main disciples of Je Tsongkhapa, whose reforms to Atiśa's Kadam tradition are considered the beginnings of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
  Khedrub Je is considered to be an emanation of Manjusri, the Buddha of Wisdom.
context_section_description: Before becoming Tsongkhapa's foremost disciple, Khedrup Je had been a learned Sakya scholar.
caption: A thangka depicting Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, circa 1800
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