Dalai Lama
/ˌdalʌɪ ˈlɑːmə
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The spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism and, until the establishment of Chinese communist rule, the spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet.During his visit to the U.S., the Dalai Lama met with the President....
- On its part, the western world was in so deep a spiritual quagmire that only a Dalai Lama could help it.
- The event, which will honour the Dalai Lama, Shirin Ebadi, Vaclav Havel, and Desmond Tutu, will take place at Vancouver's Christ Church Cathedral on April 20.
Each Dalai Lama is believed to be the reincarnation of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, reappearing in a child when the incumbent Dalai Lama dies. The present Dalai Lama, the fourteenth incarnation, escaped to India in 1959 following the Chinese invasion of Tibet and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
Origin
From Tibetan, literally 'ocean monk', so named because he is regarded as ‘the ocean of compassion’.
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