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Lobsang Pelden Tenpe Dronme (Chinese: 羅桑般殿丹畢蓉梅, Luósāng Bāndiàn Dānbì Róngméi; Tibetan: ལཅང་སྐྱ་བལོ་བཟང་དཔལ་ལདན་བསྟན་པའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་, Wylie: lcang skya blo bzang dpal ldan bstan pa'i sgron me) born 1890 in Datong, Qinghai - died March 4, 1957 in Taipei, Taiwan was a clergyman of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and the 7th Changkya Khutukhtu. He was the highest person of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia and the fourth highest lamas of Tibetan Buddhism in general. He supported the Kuomintang and accompanied the Republic of China Government to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. He was awarded titles by the Kuomintang and also received living expenses until his death.
After his death, his residence in Taipei was converted in February 1993 into the Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center, which includes a memorial to him.