Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama.
He is a practicing member of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as the world’s most famous Buddhist monk, and as exiled leader of the Tibetan government in Dharamsala, India..
Gyatso was the fifth of 16 children born to a farming family in the village of Taktser in the Tibetan province of Amdo where he learned the Amdo dialect of Tibetan as his first language. He was proclaimed the tulku which means rebirth of the thirteenth Dalai Lama two years after he was born. On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet’s absolute ruler. Thus he became Tibet’s most important political ruler.
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