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Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama is the monk Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th and current Dalai Lama, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and is the longest lived in the generation.
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1 How many Dalai Lamas have ruled Tibet before the current Dalai Lama?
If the 6th Dalai Lama was the same with the 5th Dalai Lama, then there is only one who had been reincarnating life-after-life.
According to his current Title The 14th Dalai Lama (Mongolian for "Ocean of Wisdom"), then, thirteen Dalai Lamas have ruled Tibet before the current Dalai Lama.
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What is the Dalai Lama known for?
The Dalai Lama is the head of the Tibetan Government in Exile. He is not the head of any of the 4 schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Dali Lama is the spiritual head of a sect of buddist, headquarters, tibet, main temple, tibet,
Did the dalai lama go to college?
My Father went to Harvard in the late 1950's. Not sure of the exact dates, and he passed away.
He always claimed he was in the same graduating class as the Dalai Lama.
What religion is the dalai lama?
He is a Buddhist. Specifically the Dalai Lama is the leader of the Gelug (Yellow Hat) School of Tibetan Buddhism.
HH The Dalai Lama is the leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism.
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What are the dalai lama's qualifications?
The Dalai Lama is supposed to be a reincarnation of the other Tulkus. The Chinese government uses a number of criteria to find the next Dalai Lama. They look for crows nesting at certain house and follow clues given by the previous Dalai Lama.
What problems did the 14th Dalai Lama have to face as a child?
He had to work hard and do what he was told.
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso.
For many followers of Tibetan Buddhism the 'Great Fifth' Dalai Lama is seen as having had a very important role in all aspects of Tibetan life. The Great Fifth lived between 1617 to 1682 (CE) and is credited with unifying Tibet and building bridges with a number of states including China. He was the author of over 20 important volumes on a range of matters both spiritual and temporal. The Fifth Dalia Lama is still an inspirational figure today; his teachings are regarded by many as transcending any sectarian limitations.
Why did the Dalai Lama stand up to power?
The Dalai Lama stood up to power because he was a spiritual leader who wanted to fight against war and oppression.
What did the Dalai lama achieve?
when he was 54 years old he won a Nobel Prize for
"His efforts in the struggle of the liberation of Tibet and the efforts for a peaceful resolution instead of using violence.".How much power does the Dalai Lama have?
A lot. The thing about Tibetan Buddhism, though, is that it is influenced quite a bit by the feudalistic society into which Buddhism was introduced. It was both a very hierarchical society, with an aristocracy which had a lot of money and power, and it was a very egalitarian society amongst the nomads who hadn't a lot of money or excess posessions. They were very interdependant, and so not as hierarchical. Enter Buddhism, with its message that some people were farther along the path toward enlightenment than others, but that all people, no matter how enlightened or un-enlightend were equally precious. The feudalistic structure of Tibetan society became reflected in the hierarchy of the Buddhist order, with some people being recognized as Rimpoches (like the Dalai Lama), others being recognized as Lamas and others as monks, nuns or lay people. But the reason that the Dalai Lama is venerated and given so much power is not that he's at the top of the "pecking order", but that he is thought to be enlightened. Of course, no society is purely driven by principle, and there are plenty of Tibetans who strive for power, and cement their power through machinations involving the Buddhist order. Ostensibly the Dalai Lama has all the power, but in reality, there are people who have and use a lot of power covertly.
What countries has Dalai Lama visited?
He's from Tibet and that counts as China and he lives in India and in November 2009 he would have been to Japan, USA , Australia and New Zealand as he would probably visit other countries as well.
His father was Choekyong Tsering, later known as Gyayab Chenmo (1899-1947),
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama. As an avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion, his duty is to teach humanity the Dharma, which is the teaching of the Buddha (founder of Buddhism) and lead sentiment beings towards enlightment.
Who was the seventh Dalai Lama?
List of Dalai Lamas There have been 14 Dalai Lamas: {| ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! | 1. Gendun Drup 1391-1474 No[17] དྒེ་འདུན་འགྲུབ་
dge 'dun 'grub Gêdün Chub Gedun Drub, Gedün Drup, Gendun Drup 2. Gendun Gyatso 1475-1541 No[17] དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
dge 'dun rgya mtsho Gêdün Gyaco Gedün Gyatso, Gendün Gyatso 3. Sonam Gyatso 1543-1588 1578-1588 བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
bsod nams rgya mtsho Soinam Gyaco Sönam Gyatso 4. Yonten Gyatso 1589-1616 ? ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
yon tan rgya mtsho Yoindain Gyaco Yontan Gyatso 5. Lobsang Gyatso 1617-1682 1642-1682 བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
blo bzang rgya mtsho Lobsang Gyaco Lobzang Gyatso, Lopsang Gyatso 6. Tsangyang Gyatso 1683-1706 1697-1706 ཚང་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
tshang dbyangs rgya mtsho Cangyang Gyaco 7. Kelzang Gyatso 1708-1757 1751-1757 བསྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
bskal bzang rgya mtsho Gaisang Gyaco Kelsang Gyatso, Kalsang Gyatso 8. Jamphel Gyatso 1758-1804 1786-1804 བྱམས་སྤེལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
byams spel rgya mtsho Qambê Gyaco Jampel Gyatso, Jampal Gyatso 9. Lungtok Gyatso 1806-1815 (1808-1815)[17] ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
lung rtogs rgya mtsho Lungdog Gyaco Lungtog Gyatso 10. Tsultrim Gyatso 1816-1837 ? ཚུལ་ཁྲིམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
tshul khrim rgya mtsho Cüchim Gyaco Tshültrim Gyatso 11. Khendrup Gyatso 1838-1856 1844-1856 མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
mkhas grub rgya mtsho Kaichub Gyaco Kedrub Gyatso 12. Trinley Gyatso 1857-1875 ? འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
'phrin las rgya mtsho Chinlai Gyaco Trinle Gyatso 13. Thubten Gyatso 1895-1933 1879-1933 ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
thub bstan rgya mtsho Tubdain Gyaco Thubtan Gyatso, Thupten Gyatso 14. Tenzin Gyatso 1935-present 1950-present
(currently in exile) བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
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What do you think the dalai Lama should do?
I am sorry, but your question is to unspecific to answer. What should the Dalai Lama do about what? His potential reincarnation? His transfer of secular power? His teaching & travel schedule? (which is amazing considering his age).
Does Dalai Lama have children of his own?
Answer The Dalai Lama is a celibate monk and therefore has no children. The vows the Dalai Lama takes requires him to be celibate.But,some rumors say he has a son, living in America.
