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Tsering, Tensin(Tenzin Gyatso; the [14th] Dalai Lama)
Tibetan Buddhist religious leader
enthroned at Lhasa as 14th leader of Dge-lugs-pa Buddhist order 1940
assumed titular sovereignty over Tibet with termination of regency 1950
delegate to China's National People's Congress 1954-1959
fled to India 1959 upon China's suppression of Tibetan national uprising
foremost advocate of peaceful opposition to China's occupation of Tibet
Nobel Prize in Peace 1989
wrote memoir "Freedom in Exile" 1990
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- "The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Related Books
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Opening the Mind&Generating a Good Heart (Library of Tibetan Works&Archives) by Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama (Hardcover - Aug 28, 1985) |
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Dalai Lama, the Noble Peace Laureate, speaks: Based on first-hand interviews and exclusive photographs of H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet by Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho (Unknown Binding - Aug 28, 1990) |
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