His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama: A Portrait
TITLE Dalai Lama (/ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/ (US) /ˌdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/; (UK), Chinese: 第十四世达赖喇嘛)
NAME: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (Tenzin Gyatso)
BORN: Lhamo Thondup
DATE OF BIRTH: 6 July 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH: Taktser village, Amdo, Tibet
RECOGNISED: 1936
ENTHRONED (spiritual): 1940
ENTHRONED (temporal): 17 November 1950 (15 years old)
Dalai Lamas are important monks of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism which is nominally headed by the Ganden Tripas. From the time of the 5th Dalai Lama to 1959, the central government of Tibet, the Ganden Phodrang, invested the position of Dalai Lama with temporal duties.
During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama fled to India, where he currently lives as a refugee. The 14th Dalai Lama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He has traveled the world and has spoken about the welfare of Tibetans, environment, economics, women’s rights, non-violence, interfaith dialogue, physics, astronomy, Buddhism and science, cognitive neuroscience, reproductive health, and sexuality, along with various topics of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist teachings.
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