Tsangyang Gyatso is the most representative folk poet in Tibet. He wrote many delicate and sincere poems, the most classic of which is the Lhasa Tibetan woodcut version of "The Love Song of Tsangyang Gyatso".

Tsangyang Gyatso was born in the 22nd year of Kangxi (1683) to a serf family in Wujianlin Village, Yusong District, at the foot of Nala Mountain in southern Tibet. His father, Tashi Tenzin, and his mother, Ciwang Lhamo. My family has believed in Nyingma Buddhism for generations. In the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi's reign (1697), he was recognized as the reincarnation of the fifth Dalai Lama by the then Tibetan regent Diba Sangye Gyatso. In the same year, a ceremony was held in the Potala Palace under the auspices of Sangye Gyatso. Enthronement ceremony. In the 40th year of Kangxi's reign (1701), he was caught in the conflict between Lhasang Khan and Sangjie Gyatso. Kangxi was deposed in the forty-fourth year of Kangxi (1705). It is said that he died on the way to escort in the forty-fifth year of Kangxi (1706) at the age of 23.

Tsangyang Gyatso is the most representative folk poet in Tibet. He wrote many delicate and sincere poems, the most classic of which is the Lhasa Tibetan woodcut version of "The Love Song of Tsangyang Gyatso".

According to legend, before Tsangyang Gyatso was elected as the Dalai Lama, he had a beautiful and intelligent lover in his hometown. They were together all day long, farming and herding, and they were childhood sweethearts and loved each other deeply. After Cangyang Gyatso entered the Potala Palace, he was tired of the monotonous and rigid life of a leader of the Yellow Sect in the palace. He always missed the colorful folk customs and missed his beautiful lover. He often goes out at night incognito, meets his lover, and pursues a romantic love life.

The poem "Seeing and Not Seeing" by Cangyang Gyatso is the most classic love poem.

The complete poem of "Seeing and Not Seeing":

You see me or you don't see me,

I am there, neither sad nor happy.

You think of me, or you don't think of me,

love is there, it doesn't come or go.

You love me or not,

love is there, neither increasing nor decreasing.

You follow me, or you don’t,

my hand is in yours, and I won’t let it go.

Come into my arms, or let me live in your heart.

love each other silently, like each other silently.