Biography
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Born
6 July 1935 (age 88)
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Born In
Taktser, Haidong, Qinghai, China
There are at least 2 artists under name Dalai Lama
1) Tenzin Gyatso - the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama of Tibet
2) Dalai Lama - ukrainian indie-rock band from Lviv
dalailamalviv, now known as Pleso (uk.: Плесо.)
1) Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་; Wylie: Bstan-'dzin Rgya-mtsho) (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, and as such, is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of sixteen children of a farming family in the Tibetan province of Amdo, he was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of two. On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Head of State and most important political ruler, while Tibet faced occupation by the forces of the People's Republic of China.
After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin Gyatso fled to India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan government in exile) and seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him.
A charismatic figure and noted public speaker, Tenzin Gyatso is the first Dalai Lama to travel to the West, where he has helped to spread Buddhism and to publicise the ideal of Free Tibet. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
you can read more about Dalai Lama on wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso%2C_14th_Dalai_Lama
2) There is also a Ukrainian indie-rock band Dalai called Lama
http://www.myspace.com/dalailamalviv
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