dalai lama

     

The Dalai Lama is the spiritual an political leader of the Tibetan people. 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 Yeshe Norbu, meaning "Wish-fulfilling Jewel." "Lama" (meaning "teacher") is a title given to many different ranks of Tibetan Buddhist clergy.

Trivia about dalai lama

  • In 1959 this spiritual leader of Tibet fled to exile in India
  • In 1578 a Mongolian ruler first gave the leader of Tibet's Yellow Hat sect of Buddhism this title
  • In 1959 this leader fled to Dharamsala, India in response to China's harsh rule of Tibet
  • "Tibet's beacon of peace maintains a calm compassion--even as Beijing cracks down on his people"
  • This Tibetan's resume includes: 1992 - Guest Editor, French Vogue; 1989 - Nobel Peace Prize
  • In "Kundun" 4 actors played this spiritual leader from the age of 2 to adulthood
  • On July 6, 1935 he was born in Tibet for either the 1st or 14th time
  • In a Tibetan rite, a boy who picks out this man's former possessions is declared his reincarnation
  • In 1642 this spiritual leader became the ruler of Tibet
  • In 2008 he reiterated that if the majority of Tibetans resorted to violence, he'd resign as their spokesperson
  • In the 16th century Prince Altan Khan gave this Tibetan religious leader his title, a Mongol term meaning "ocean"
  • He felt honored & humbled that the Nobel committee gave the prize to "a simple monk from Tibet"
  • Begun in the 600s, the Potala Palace in Lhasa is the traditional home of this religious leader
  • In 1986 the Pope met in India with this exiled Buddhist leader
  • Deposed by the Chinese, a religious leader with this title reached exile in Darjeeling, India in March
  • This Tibetan, a noted big hitter, hit the list with "The Universe In A Single Atom"
  • This spiritual leader of Tibet has said, "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness"
  • This leader's enthronement ceremony took place when he was 4, in the iron-dragon year (1940, to us)
  • The man born Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th holder of this title
  • Teng Hsiao-P'ing tried to unsuccessfully to persuade him to return to Tibet
  • "The Art of Happiness" is a dialogue between Dr. Howard Cutler & this Buddhist
  • In 1940, at age 5, Tenzin Gyatso was enthroned as the 14th one of these spiritual leaders
  • Richard Gere titled the Time 100 article on this longtime friend of his "He Belongs To The World"
  • This "Supreme Temporal and Religious Head of Tibet" has a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy
  • Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth man to hold this title, died mysteriously in 1706
  • When Chinese troops invaded in 1959, this leader escaped through a Himalayan mountain pass
  • The Buddhist Gelukpa sect, which this man heads, is also known as the Sect of the Yellow Hat
  • "In Exile from the Land of Snows" is "The Definitive Account of" him & "Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest"
  • In Vanity Fair Rupert Murdoch described this man as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes"
  • This 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner is 75 years old & has spent 70 years in his current job
  • For more than 400 years, the chief monk of Tibetan Buddhism has gone by this title
  • The third leader of the Yellow Hat sect was the first to bear this title in 1578
  • "The Art of Happiness" was written by this Asian man who was picked out for his present job at the age of 2