The title of "Dalai" first came from the third Dalai Lama Soinam Gyamco. "Gyamco" means the Sea in the Tibetan language, which is contained in the name of Dalai Lama of later generations.
Key events in this extraordinary story include recognition, at the age of four, as the 13th reincarnation of the first Dalai Lama who ruled Tibet from 1391-1474 - and being awarded the 1989 Nobel ...
The first time I met the Dalai Lama he tweaked my cheek. It is pretty unusual to have your cheek tweaked by anyone, let alone by a man regarded as a living god by many of his followers.
The Panchen Lamas and Dalai Lamas consider themselves “spiritual friends,” but the relationship between the two figures and their communities has hardly been smooth. The latest smear campaig ...
As a way of nudging me out of this impersonal perspective, the Dalai Lama has told me many times, “Remember that you are one of 8 billion.” By this, he means two things. First, no one is any ...
Mesfin Fekadu, music writer, New York, gave AP a six-hour beat on all competitors with a report that the Dalai Lama would release his first-ever album; the story was picked up by Rolling Stone, ...
This monastery was built by the first Dalai Lama and acts as a seat to the Panchen Lama, the most important leader in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama. Shigatse is also the closest big city ...
He was the first Dalai Lama to assume both spiritual and secular leadership (with the support of the Mongol leader Gushri Khan) within a newly unified Central Tibet. He commissioned the construction ...