The 14th Dalai Lama was born as Lhamo Dondrub in a village in Tibet in 1935. He has been a spiritual leader since he was 15, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. These 20 insightful quotes by ...

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.

Born in 1935 in the north-eastern Amdo province of Tibet, Lhamo Dhondup was recognised as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. He was brought to Lhasa in October 1939 and ...

The Dalai Lama was born in Taktser, Qinghai and was selected as the rebirth of the 13th Dalai Lama two years later, although he was only formally recognized as the 14th on 17 November 1950, at the age ...