The Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama

with Kavishka Colamba

Tenzin Gyatso

Tenzin Gyatso (or Dalai Lama) is the fourteenth and the current Dalai Lama. He was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of five.

Early Tibet Life

Tenzin Gyatso was born in the 6th of July in 1935 in a farmers family in the northern Tibet. He was the one of the fifth surviving child of 9 children.

At the age of 15, he took the responbility of Tibet(because China was a powerful threat).

In 1959 he flee in India for China’s invasion in Tibet territory.

A Tulku is specific way of teachings in Tibetan

Buddhism who is given empowerments and trained from a young age by students of his predecessor.

Tulku

The current Dalai Lama is food passionate and

was a special guest in Masterchef Australia in 2011.

Food Passion

In 1989 Tenzin Gyatso was awarded the Nobel

Peace Prize, the chairman of the Nobel committee saying that this was "in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi."

Nobel Peace Prize