Annual manual dalai lamas biography
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Dalai Lama
Tulku lineage of Gelug Tibetan Buddhism
For other uses, see Dalailama.
For the list, see List of Dalai Lamas.
For the current Dalai Lama, see 14th Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama (, ;[1][2]Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma[táːlɛːláma]) is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣 识一切 瓦齐尔达喇 达赖 喇嘛)[3] given by Altan Khan, the first Shunyi King of Ming China. He offered it in appreciation to the leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, Sonam Gyatso, who received it in 1578 at Yanghua Monastery.[4] At that time, Sonam Gyatso had just given teachings to the Khan, and so the title of Dalai Lama was also given to the entire tulku lineage. Sonam Gyatso became the 3rd Dalai Lama, while the first two tulkus in the lineage, the 1st Dalai Lama and the 2nd Dalai Lama, were posthumously awarded the title.
All tulkus in the lineage of the Dalai Lamas are considered manifestations o
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14th Dalai Lama
Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940
The 14th Dalai Lama[b] (born 6 July 1935; full spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, shortened as Tenzin Gyatso;[c]né Lhamo Thondup)[d] is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. Before 1959, he served as both the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, and subsequently established and led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India.[2][3] The adherents of Tibetan Buddhism consider the Dalai Lama a living Bodhisattva, specifically an emanation of Avalokiteśvara (in Sanskrit) or Chenrezig (in Tibetan), the Bodhisattva of Compassion, a belief central to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and the institution of the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama, whose name means Ocean of Wisdom, is part of the full title "圣 识一切 瓦齐尔达喇 达赖 喇嘛" (Holines
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༄༅། །དགའ་ལྡན་ཤར་རྩེ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་། །
Education in Tibet
He began his education at the age of six and completed the Geshe Lharampa grad (Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy) when he was 25 in 1959. At 24, he took the preliminary examinations at each of the three monastic universities: Drepung, Sera and Ganden. The sista examination was conducted in the Jokhang, Lhasa during the annual Monlam Festival of bön, held in the first month of every year Tibetan calendar.
Leadership Responsibilities
On November 17, 1950, His helighet was called upon to assume full political power (head of the State and Government) after the Chinese military invaded Tibet. Between 1954-1956, He travelled to Beijing for peace talks with Mao Tse-tung and visited India to meet with Prime Minister Nehru about deteriorating conditions in Tibet. His efforts to bring about a peaceful solution to Sino-Tibetan conflict were thwarted by Bejing's ruthless policy in Eastern Tibet, which ignited