His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet. Two years after his birth in 1935 to a farming family in northeastern Tibet, he was recognized as the ...

At the age of two, named Lhamo Dhondup at the time, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. According to the Dalai Lama's website, the "Dalai Lamas are ...

The 8th Dalai Lama passed away at 46. The fresco shows that the Emperor Dowager received the 13th Dalai Lama who came to Beijing in 1908, or the 34th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu.

When the fifth sibling, Lhamo Thondup, reached the age of 2 in 1937, a party of high lamas arrived in a mission to recognize ...

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." Tenzin Gyatso, is the 14th Dalai Lama and the spiritual leader of Tibet. He is the best known face of Tibetan Buddhism, has lived in exile in India ...