The 14th Dalai Lama

Ji Zun descended to the white Ngawang Lobsang Yeshi Tenzin Gyatso, the teacher Songwang Jie Tsung Bami Bai Debeisangbu (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུ ན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས་བསྟན་ འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་སྲིད་གསུམ་དབང་བསྒྱུར་མཚུ ངས་པ་མེད་པའི་སྡེ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་, Willie Transcribed by: rje btsun 'jam dpal ngag dbang blo bzang ye shes bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho srid gsum dbang bsgyur mtshungs pa med pa'i sde dpal bzang po, THL: Jétsün Jampel Ngakwang Lozang Yéshé Tendzin Gyatso Sisum Wanggyur Tsungpa Mépé Dé Pelzangpo, Tibetan Pinyin: Jêzün Jambä Ngagwang Losang Yêxê Dänzin Gyaco Sisum Wanggyur Cungba Mêbä Dê Bäsangbo, July 6, 1935-), referred to as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ, Tibetan Pinyin: Dänzin Gyaco), is the 14th Dalai Lama. As the Dalai Lama, he is the supreme leader of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibetan culture and a symbolic figure in Tibetan politics and religion. Tenzin Gyatso was born in a peasant family in Qijiachuan, Xining County, Amdo, Tibetan area (now Hongya Village, Ping'an District, Haidong City, Qinghai Province), and his nickname was Lhamu Denzhu. In 1937, after selection by the search team, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama. The following year, the Tibetan Kashag government officially recognized him as the 14th Dalai Lama, and the National Government of the Republic of China agreed to be exempted from the "Drawing of Lots from the Golden Urn". On February 22, 1940, he held an enthronement ceremony and succeeded to the throne as the 14th Dalai Lama. Reting Thubten Jambai Yeshe Dampa Gyaltsen and Daza Ngawang Sonrattu Dodenpa Jie Zin successively served as regents of Tibet. On November 17, 1950, as the Chinese People's Liberation Army defeated the Tibetan Army in the Battle of Qamdo,