Dalai Lama, 14th

PersonType	Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Category:Tulkus
MainNamePhon	The 14th Dalai Lama
MainNameTib	བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
MainNameWylie	bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho
YearBirth	1935/07/06
ReligiousAffiliation	Geluk
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. At the age of two, the child, then named Lhamo Dhondup, was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are realized beings inspired by a wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings, who have vowed to be reborn in the world to help humanity. (More Here)
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Names

Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་
Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Wylie:

• tA la'i bla ma
  
• bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho
  

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་)
Born Lhamo Döndrub (Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་དོན་འགྲུབ་; Wylie: lha-mo don-'grub)
Often referred to simply as "His Holiness" (HH), or "His Holiness The Dalai Lama", Tibetans usually call the Dalai Lama by the epithets Gyalwa Rinpoche, meaning "Precious Victor", or Yishin Norbu, meaning "Wish-fulfilling Jewel." "Lama" (meaning "teacher") is a title given to many different ranks of Tibetan Buddhist clergy.
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Dates

b. 6 July 1935

Lineage

• Gendün Drup
• Dalai Lama, 2nd
• Dalai Lama, 3rd
• Dalai Lama, 4th
• Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso
• The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso
• Seventh Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso
• The Eighth Dalai Lama, Jampal Gyatso
• Dalai Lama, 9th
• Dalai Lama, 10th
• Dalai Lama, 11th
• Dalai Lama, 12th
• The Thirteenth Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso
• The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID=P1649

Nobel Prize Biography

Writings

Full list from official website

Amazon List

Selection:

Freedom in Exile. The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama. New York: Harper Collins, 1990. (The fullest account, written in English.)

My Land and My People. Memoirs of the Dalai Lama of Tibet. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962, Reprinted, New York: Potala Corp., 1983, 1985. (His first account, translated from Tibetan, written with David Howarth, English writer, after escaping to India.)

Ocean of Wisdom. Guidelines for Living. Santa Fe, N.M.: Clear Light Publ., 1989. Reprinted, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990. (Includes Nobel acceptance speech.)

Writings About Dalai Lama, 14th

• Bell, Sir Charles. 1946. Portrait of a Dalai Lama. London, Collins.
• Gould, B. J. 1941. Report on the Discovery, Recognition and Installation of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. New Delhi.
• Kun rtse (Kusantse), Bsod nams dbang 'dus (also listed under Khe smad). 1968. [[Lhar bcas 'gro ba'i 'dren mchog gong sa skyabs mgon rgyal dbang sku phreng bcu bzhi pa bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho chen po mchog thog mar rtsad dpyod ngos 'dzin gdan zhu ji ltar zhus skor rang myong ma bcos lhug par bkod pa'i bden gtam rna ba'i bdud. Dharamsala]]. (Account of the search for and selection of the 14th Dalai Lama, by a member of the search party.)
• A Policy of Kindness. An Anthology of Writings by and about the Dalai Lama. Sidney Piburn, ed., Ithaca, NY Snow Lion Press, 1990. (Includes the official Nobel lecture and the informal lecture.)

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.