14th Dalai Lama
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24 hours in Lhasa...Lama's winter palace, it makes sense to visit his summer one: Norbulingka, a short drive west of the Potala. The current 14th Dalai Lama lived here until 1959; it is the place from which he fled, disguised as a Chinese soldier, to begin his... In this article: Lhasa, Potala Palace, Buddhism, Tibet, Chengdu, Dalai Lama, Jokhang, Pizza, and Tax |
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Financial Times | November 18, 2009
Dalai Lama thanks Obama for support
...of committing fatal arson attacks during unrest in March marking the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight to India. With his characteristic laugh, the Dalai Lama also noted the "limitations" to the support he could expect from the...
In this article: Dalai Lama, Tibet, China, White House, Hu Jintao, Buddhist, Rome, and Beijing
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BBC News | November 10, 2009
Emotional reunion
Devotees flocked to a festive Tawang for the Dalai Lama's visit Perched high up in a remote corner of north-east India, Tawang is every bit the frontier town. Maroon-robed Buddhist monks rub shoulders with ethnic Tibetans, Nepalese and...
In this article: Dalai Lama, China, India, Tibet, Buddhist, Separatism, and God
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The Bergen Record | November 08, 2009
Dalai Lama's visit to India riles China
...Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said last week that the trip "once again exposes the nature of the Dalai Lama as anti-China." The Dalai Lama, however, insisted the accusation was "baseless" and that he was only seeking to promote...
In this article: Dalai Lama, China, India, Beijing, Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, Buddhism, Dysentery, and Lhasa
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 08, 2009
Dalai Lama visits monastery despite China protest
...erupted in Lhasa in March last year and spread across the region. The Indian government has defended the Dalai Lama's right to travel where he wishes in India, and Arunachal Pradesh's chief minister, Dorjee Khandu, said that China had "no...
In this article: Dalai Lama, China, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Beijing, Tibet, Buddhist, Manmohan Singh, and Lhasa
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | November 07, 2009
Dalai Lama arrives in Tawang
...Guwahati by a helicopter, was received at the helipad by Arunachal chief minister Dorjee Khandu and other ministers. The 14th Dalai Lama, who will be staying in the 300-year-old Tawang monastery, will hold religious discourses for the...
In this article: Dalai Lama, Buddhism, Arunachal Pradesh, China, Itanagar, and Tibet
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Seattle Times | November 07, 2009
Dalai Lama visits town near Tibet, angering China
Originally published Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 9:49 PM Dalai Lama visits town near Tibet, angering China The Dalai Lama brushed off Chinese protests and traveled Sunday to a remote Himalayan town near the Tibetan border to lead five...
In this article: Dalai Lama, China, Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing, India, Buddhist, Dysentery, Lhasa, and New Delhi
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Independent.co.uk - World | November 05, 2009
Dalai Lama's monastery visit angers Chinese
High in the Himalayas, the biggest Buddhist monastery in India is preparing for a visit from the Dalai Lama that is set to anger and antagonise China as much as it will delight the red-robed monks that he meets. Officials in Beijing have...
In this article: Dalai Lama, India, Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing, China, Tibet, Buddhist, and Manmohan Singh
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New Kerala | November 04, 2009
Seeking greater autonomy for Tibet, not independence: Dalai Lama
...as a hostile person bent on splitting Tibet from China. Beijing frowns upon meetings between the Dalai Lama and foreign leaders. The Dalai Lama along with many of his supporters fled Tibet and took refuge in India when Chinese troops moved in...
In this article: Dalai Lama, Tibet, People's Republic of China, Shikoku Island, Japan, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Dharamsala, and Lhasa
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New Kerala | October 25, 2009
Three Nobel laureates to meet Dalai Lama in Dharamsala
Dharamsala, Oct 25 : Three Nobel peace laureates will visit this Himachal Pradesh town Tuesday to meet the Dalai Lama and discuss issues related to world peace, an official said Sunday. 'Nobel laureates Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Corrigan and...
In this article: Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, Nobel Prize, Mairead Corrigan, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Democracy, Tibetan Children's Village, and Betty Williams
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washingtonpost.com | October 09, 2009
The Dalai Lama's Elite, if Eclectic, Entourage
...Jinpa, the Dalai Lama's British-accented translator, who wears jeans and a sweet smile. As for the Dalai Lama, he doesn't step foot in the bar. He barely eats dinner -- as is typical for super-focused monks -- and goes to bed extremely...
In this article: Dalai Lama, Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist, Tibet, Hollywood, and Washington
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Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub (; 拉莫顿珠) (6 July 1935 in Qinghai), is the 14th Dalai Lama. He is a spiritual leader revered among Tibetans, and the head of the government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India. Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors.
The Dalai Lama was born fifth of 16 children to a farming family in the village of Taktser, in the Qinghai province of the Republic of China. His first language was the regional Amdo dialect. He was proclaimed the tulku or rebirth of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. In 1950 the army of the People's Republic of China invaded the region. One month later, on 17 November 1950, he was formally enthroned as Dalai Lama. He thus, at the age of fifteen, became the region's most important spiritual leader and political ruler.
In 1951, the Chinese military pressured the Dalai Lama to ratify a seventeen-point agreement which permitted the People's Republic of China to take control of Tibet. He fled through the mountains to India following the failed 1959 uprising, and the effective collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement. In India he set up a government-in-exile.
The most influential figure of the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat Sect, he has considerable influence over the other sects of Tibetan Buddhism. The Chinese government regards him as the symbol of an outmoded theocratic system. Along with the 80,000 or so exiles that followed him, the Dalai Lama strives to preserve traditional Tibetan education and culture.
- Birth Date:
- July 06, 1935
- Birthplace:
- Taktser, Qinghai, China
- Mother:
- Diki Tsering
- Father:
- Choekyong Tsering
- Reign:
- 17 November 1950 – present
- Title:
- 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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