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Tibet
This category covers questions about Tibet, a plateau region in Asia, that is often known as "the roof of the world" having the highest elevation on Earth. Most of cultural Tibet is controlled by the People's Republic of China as a autonomous territory. The rest is disputed territories between India and China who both lay claims to the land.
590 Questions
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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Who are the dalai lama fallowers?
I would sya that there are a few different kinds. The First are Tibetans who see him as the leader of their country. Then there are Buddhists of the Gelug branch of Tibetan Buddhists who see him as their Spiritual leader and then there are Buddhists in general who see him as an important spiritual teacher.
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).
The dalai lama is the spirtual leader of?
The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism.
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.
What are monks of Tibet called?
The monks of Tibet are called Tibetan monks in English. In Tibetan they may be called choden 'religious' or chodak 'Dharma spreader.'
Where does the dalai lama live in 2012?
HH The Dalai Lama lives in Dharamsala, which is in Kangra district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is also home to a large number of Tibetan refugees and the Tibetan government in exile.
What famous people has the Dalai Lama met?
There have been many. Most world leaders, a majority of other religious leaders, and then there are the famous actors and actresses, like Richard Gere, etc.
When was the 14th dalai lama live?
The 14th Dalai Lama is the current Dalai Lama. He was born in 1935 and he is still alive.
What does dalai lama have to do with Buddhism?
The Dalai Lama is the head of one sect of Tibetan Buddhists (Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school ). With the present turmoil in Tibet he has assumed both the Panchan Lama's role and his own in the government of the country. He has nothing to do with other sects or schools of Buddhism. He is however a well known scholar of Tibetan Buddhist belief, write of numerous books on peace and meditationr, the recipient of the Nobel Prize, and the only known Buddhist leader for many westerners.
Which is the official seat of Dalai lama?
He is the religious head of Tibet. Also, he originally has authority over the country - making him the head of government as well. However, he has resigned from the last title, because he is trying to peacefully negotiate with China.
Which branch of Buddhism accepts the dalai lama?
The Dalai Lama is the head of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. All Buddhists recognize that the Dalai Lama is an influential Buddhist and teacher.
The Dalai Lama has long been considered the secular (nonreligious) leader of Tibet although that has recently changed as the Dalai Lama would like the people of Tibet to have a democratically elected leader. The Dalai Lama is also the religious head of one of the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism called the Gelug, or yellow hat Buddhists.
Wbat do Tibetan singing bowls look like?
A Tibetan singing bowl is a brass bowl from 10 to 50 cm in diameter which produces a bell like noise when tapped or a single humming note when rubbed with a puja stick. The bowls are made of a bronze alloy with seven different component metals. (Pictures and sound files at Link)
Is Tibet the coldest place on earth?
No. The coldest place on Earth is Antarctica. A temperature of -89.2 C (-128.6 F) was recorded at the Russian Vostok Station on July 21st 1983.
What does tony lama do for a living?
Tony Lama is a clothing designer that focuses on the production of boots. He has been designing and selling boots since he was eleven, and when he started he was mainly selling to soldiers.
Did Malcolm X had to do with Dalai Lama?
No, Malcolm X was a Muslim. He left the Nation Of Islam, but he was still a Muslim. He was not a Buddhists.
