Dalai Lama XIV
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July 06, 1935
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Takster, Tibet
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Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
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Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is a practicing member of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the world's most famous Buddhist monk, and the leader of the exiled Tibetan government in India.
Tenzin Gyatso was the fifth of sixteen children born to a farming family. He was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two.
On 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, he was enthroned as Tibet's ruler. Thus he became Tibet's most important political ruler just one month after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet on 7 October 1950. In 1954, he went to Beijing to attempt peace talks with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. These talk...more
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV
— Dalai Lama XIV
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama XIV
— Dalai Lama XIV
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV
— Dalai Lama XIV
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