The 14th Dalai Lama, known to the Tibetan people as Gyalwa Rinpoche, is the current Dalai Lama, also the highest spiritual leader and head of the country of Tibet since 1940. He was born on July 6, 1935 and he is considered a living Bodhisattva, specifically, an emanation of Avalokiteśvara in Sanskrit and Chenrezig in Tibetan.

Dalai Lama is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or “Yellow Hat” school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India.

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The name “Dalai Lama” is a combination of the Mongolic word dalai meaning “ocean” or “great” and the Tibetan word (bla-ma) meaning “master, guru”. The Dalai Lama is also known in Tibetan as the Rgyal-ba Rin-po-che (“Precious Conqueror”) or simply as the Rgyal-ba.

Dalai Lama is a Buddhist Advocate for Peace and Freedom. He is so famous because from his exile in India, the religious and political leader the Dalai Lama has since 1959 stood at the head of the nonviolent opposition to China’s occupation of Tibet.

Dalai Lama parents

The parents of the 14th Dalai Lama were Choekyong Tsering and Diki Tsering. The mother of Dalai, Diki Tsering 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. She died on the 12th of January 1981 aged 79–80.

Choekyong Tsering was the father of Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. His main occupations were Farming, and Horse trading. He was born in 1899, in Taktser, China and died in 1947.

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