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Biography of Dalai LamaName: Dalai LamaBirth Date: July 6, 1935 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Taktser, Tibet Nationality: Tibet Gender: Male Occupations: religious leader Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup; born 1935), the 14th in a line of Buddhist spiritual and temporal leaders of Tibet, fled to India during the revolt against Chinese control in 1959 and from exile promoted Tibetan religious and cultural traditions.The 14th Dalai Lama (loosely translated "Ocean of Wisdom") was born Lhamo Thondup on July 6, 1935, in Taktser, a small village in far northeastern Tibet. In 1937 a mission sent out by the Tibetan government to search for the successor to the 13th Dalai Lama, who had died in 1935, felt led to him by signs and oracles. It is reported that when they tested him, Lhamo Thondup correctly identified objects belonging to his predecessor, and a state oracle confirmed that he was the reincarnation of the previous Dalai Lamas. On February 22, 1940, he was officially installed as spiritual leader of Tibet, though political rule remained in the hands of the regents. He took the name …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…have been written by Tibetan leaders. See for example Chogyam Trungpa, Born in Tibet (1966), and Rinchaen Dola Taring, Daughter of Tibet (1970). The most accurate survey of Tibetan religion is Helmut Hoffman, The Religions of Tibet (1961). See also "The Dalai Lama" by Claudia Dreifus in the New York Times Magazine (November 28, 1993) and Gill Farrer Halls, The World of the Dalai Lama: An Inside Look at His Life, His People, and His Vision (1998). A very readable brief history of Tibetan Buddhism appears in Jeremy Bernstein's In the Himalayas (1989). An article describing the Shugden dispute appeared in Jinn Magazine (May 5, 1998); available from http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/. The Dalai Lama's meeting with President Bush was covered by the Asian edition of CNN.com (May 24, 2001); available from http://asia.cnn.com/. For insight into the Dalai Lama's personal philosophy see Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (1998). |