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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940 Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama in 2012 14th Dalai Lama Reign 22 February 1940 – present Predecessor 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso Regent 5th Reting Rinpoche, Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen (1934–1941) 3rd Taktra Rinpoche (1941–1950) Head ...
This is a list of Dalai Lamas of Tibet. There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama. There has also been one non-recognised Dalai Lama, Ngawang Yeshe Gyatso (declared in 1707), by Lha-bzang Khan as the "true" 6th Dalai Lama – however, he was never accepted as such by the majority of the Tibetan people. [1] [2] [3]
The main teaching room of the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India 14th Dalai Lama In the mid-1970s, Tenzin Gyatso told a Polish newspaper that he thought he would be the last Dalai Lama. In a later interview published in the English language press he stated, "The Dalai Lama office was an institution created to benefit others.
Diki Tsering (བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཚེ་རིང་; c. 1901 – 12 January 1981) [1] was a 20th-century Tibetan woman, known as the mother of three reincarnated Rinpoches/Lamas: Lhamo Thondup, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th reincarnated Dalai Lama; Thubten Jigme Norbu, the 6th reincarnated Taktser Rinpoche; and Tendzin Choegyal, the 16th reincarnated Ngari Rinpoche.
Jetsun Pema (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma; Chinese: 吉尊白瑪, born 7 July 1940) is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama. For 42 years she was the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) school system for Tibetan refugee students.
In late fall of 1927, [1] Gyalo Thondup was born in the village of Taktser, [2] Amdo (Ping'an District, Qinghai province). In 1939, he moved with his family to Lhasa.. In 1942, at the age of 14, Thondup went to Nanjing, the capital of Republican China, to study Standard Chinese and the history of China.
Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, a grandnephew of the Dalai Lama, stars as the adult Dalai Lama, while Tencho Gyalpo, a niece of the Dalai Lama, appears as the Dalai Lama's mother. "Kundun" (སྐུ་མདུན་ Wylie : sku mdun in Tibetan ), meaning "presence", is a title by which the Dalai Lama is addressed.
This time his name was added to the next shortlist, the third, and at last the response from the 13th Dalai Lama was positive - Diki Tsering had given birth to the incarnation of Taktser Lama and Thubten Jigme Norbu became Taktser Rinpoche. [12] In the late 1930s, the original family name of Taktser changed for the other family members. [1]