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

• "The purpose of our lives is to be happy."