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The Dalai Lama Tulku lineage (UK: / ˈ d æ l aɪ ˈ l ɑː m ə /, US: / ˈ d ɑː l aɪ /; [1] [2] Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) began in the 1430s with the first tulku Gendun Drupa, a student of Tsongkhapa.
Dalai Lama, leader of the dominant Dge-lugs-pa (Gelukpa, also called Yellow Hat) order of Tibetan Buddhists and, until 1959, both spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet. The current Dalai Lama is the world-renowned 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) who lives in exile in India.
"Dalai" means "ocean" in Mongolian (the name "Gyatso" comes from the Tibetan word for ocean). "Lama" is the equivalent of the Sanskrit word "guru," or spiritual teacher. Put together, the title...
Dalai Lama is a title given to members of a prominent incarnation lineage within the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The successive Dalai Lama incarnations were the temporal leaders of the Tibetan state from 1642, during the time of the 5th Dalai Lama, until 1959, when the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet to escape the Chinese Communist occupation.
The Dalai Lama is the head monk of Tibetan Buddhism and traditionally has been responsible for the governing of Tibet, until the Chinese government took control in 1959.
DALAI LAMA, title of the spiritual and formerly political leader of the Tibetan people, is a combination of the Mongolian dalai ("ocean"), signifying profound knowledge, and the Tibetan blama ("religious teacher").
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet.
Dalai Lama is the honorific title of Tenzin Gyatso (Bstan ‘dzin rgya mtsho, b. 1935), a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the de facto leader of the Tibetans. The title “Dalai Lama” is made up of a Mongolian word meaning “vast” (possibly the translation of the Tibetan word gyatso (rgya mstho, “ocean”) and the Tibetan word bla ma ...
Between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lama was not only the head of the Tibetan Government, administering a large portion of the country from the capital Lhasa, but a spiritual leader revered among Tibetans.
The Dalai Lamas are believed by Tibetan Buddhists to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet.