Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Llhamo Döndrub (Tibetan: ལ; Wylie: Lha-mo Don-'grub) 6 July 1935 in Qinghai [1]), is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama.[2] He is the political and spiritual leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the world's most well-known Buddhist monk, and leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India.

Gyatso was the fifth of 16 children born to a farming family in the village of Taktser in Tibet now in China.[1] He was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama two years after he was born.

On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Dalai Lama, thus becoming Tibet's most important political ruler. This occurred only one month after the People's Liberation Army's invasion of Tibet. In 1951, the Tibetan delegate, appointed by Dalai Lama, signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which was ratified by the Dalai Lama a few months later.[3] However, he would later repudiate the agreement.

In September 1954, he and Panchen Lama traveled to Beijing to meet with Mao Zedong and other senior leaders of China. He was subsequently elected as vice chairman of the first National People's Congress, the People's Republic of China's highest state body and only legislative house. In 1956, the Dalai Lama became the chair of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region (PCART).[4]

After a failed uprising and the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, the Dalai Lama left for India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him.[5]

Tenzin Gyatso is described as a "charismatic" figure[6][7] and noted public speaker. He is the first Dalai Lama to travel to the West. There, he has helped to spread Tibetan Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989,[6][8] honorary Canadian citizenship in 2006, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal on 17 October 2007.[9]

Laird (2006: p.23) in a published transcription of a conversation with Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama identifies the karmic "connections" or mindstream affinities he has:

"If someone asks me whether I am the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama," he said, "then I answer, without hesitation, yes. This does not mean that I am the same being as the previous Dalai Lama. Some Dalai Lamas are a manifestation of Manjusri. Some are a manifestation of Chenrizi. Chenrizi is the manifestation of compassion. Manjusri is the manifestation of wisdom. I have a special connection with the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the Fifth Dalai Lama. I have felt some kind of karmic relations or connections even with the Buddha. I feel I can say I have some kind of connection with the previous Dalai Lamas, some of the previous masters, with Chenrizi, even with the Buddha."[10]

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama