Tibetans celeberate Dalai Lama’s 71st B’day!
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Dalai Lama
Date of Birth: 6 July 1935
Name at birth: Lhama Thondup or Lhama Dhondrub
Born to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet, Lhama Dhondrub was soon recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama (Mongolian for “Ocean of Wisdom”). In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is believed to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion; when the Dalai Lama dies, his soul is believed to pass into the body of an infant. Upon recognition, Lhama Dhondrub was renamed Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, and is referred to as Yeshe Norbu, the Wishfulfilling Gem or Kundun. Trained as a monk, when the Dalai Lama was a teenager he became the head of the Tibetan government in their fight against the occupying forces of the People’s Republic of China. Since 1959 the Dalai Lama has been the leader of the government in exile. His travels in the cause of peace and a free Tibet, and in 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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