biography
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Dalai Lama
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(Mongolian, ‘ocean-like guru’)
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pronunciation:
[daliy lahma]
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Spiritual and temporal head of Tibet, currently Tenzin Gyatso (1935– ), born in Taktser, China, into a peasant family. He was designated the 14th Dalai Lama in 1937, but his rights were exercised by a regency until 1950. He fled to Chumbi in S Tibet after an abortive anti-Chinese uprising in 1950, but negotiated an autonomy agreement with the People's Republic the following year, and for the next eight years served as nominal ruler of Tibet. After China's suppression of the Tibetan national uprising of 1959, he was forced into permanent exile, settling at Dharamsala in Punjab, India, where he established a democratically-based alternative government. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Peace in recognition of his commitment to the nonviolent liberation of his homeland. |
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