Dalai Lama XIV

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July 06, 1935 in Takster, Tibet

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Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub, Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་དོན་འགྲུབ་), 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 (an Enlightened lama who has consciously decided to take 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 Octo...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 39,933 ratings · 3,293 reviews · 225 distinct works

	The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama 4.09 avg rating — 14,578 ratings — published 1998 — 41 editions	My rating:
	An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life 4.23 avg rating — 2,073 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality 3.96 avg rating — 2,095 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	How to Practice : The Way to a Meaningful Life 4.09 avg rating — 1,620 ratings — 18 editions	My rating:
	Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama XIV, Dalai Lama 4.13 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama by Dalai Lama XIV, Dalai Lama XIV 4.23 avg rating — 966 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	My rating:
	How to See Yourself As You Really Are by Dalai Lama XIV, Jeffrey Hopkins (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 776 ratings — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Art Of Happiness At Work by Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler 3.86 avg rating — 573 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Wisdom of Forgiveness by Dalai Lama XIV, Victor Chan, Dalai Lama 4.17 avg rating — 387 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	My Land and My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet by Dalai Lama XIV, Melissa Mathison Ford (Foreword by) 4.29 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions	My rating:

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