Historical Figure
Tenzin Gyatso
b. 1935
Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940
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Key Dates
Birth
1935 July 6, 1935 →Biography
The 14th Dalai Lama is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959 and subsequently led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India.
Timeline
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is enthroned as the leader of Tibet at the age of fifteen.
November 17 →en Tíbet, Tenzin Gyatso (el «dalái lama» número 14), proclama al niño Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (de 6 años de edad), como la reencarnación 11 del «panchen lama».
May 14 →Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
May 14 →More from the Interwar & WWII
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