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Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Characteristic hands-raised anjali greeting
Reign17 November 1950 – present
PredecessorThubten Gyatso
Tibetanབསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ
Wyliebstan ’dzin rgya mtsho
Pronunciationtɛ̃tsĩ catsʰo (IPA)
Transcription
(PRC)
Dainzin Gyaco
THDLTenzin Gyatso
Chinese丹增嘉措
PinyinDānzēng Jiācuò
FatherChoekyong Tsering
MotherDiki Tsering
Born (1935-07-06) 6 July 1935 (age 89)
Taktser, Amdo[1]

References

  1. At the time of Tenzin Gyatso's birth, Qinghai was under the control of Ma Lin, a warlord allied with Chiang Kai-shek and appointed governor of Qinghai Province by the Kuomintang. See Li, T.T. "Historical Status of Tibet", Columbia University Press, p179 ; Bell, Charles, "Portrait of the Dalai Lama", p399; Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein, A history of modern Tibet, pp315-317