9th dalai lama biography book pdf
I have relied upon Regent Demo Hotoktu Jikmé Gyatso 's biography, The Allure of Faith, for information on the ninth Dalai Lama....
The 14th Dalai Lama was born Lhamo Döndrub, the 5th child of a large family in the farming village of Qinghai, China.
In , he died at the age of forty-seven.
At the age of two, he was picked out as the rebirth of the thirteenth Dalai Lama and sent for formal monastic training to become a Buddhist monk and eventually become the spiritual head of the Tibetan people. His spiritual name is Tenzin Gyatso, though he is mostly referred to as the ‘Dalai Lama’
“My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness.”
– Dalai Lama
He was formally enthroned as the Dalai Lama in 1950, shortly after the Chinese invasion of Tibet. He was thrust into a position of immense significance becoming both spiritual and political leader to a country under invasion and occupation.
After several years of Chinese occupation and persecution of the Tibetan religious practices, the Dalai Lama feared capture by the Chinese and so reluctantly decided to leave and fled over the border into India.
It was a perilous journey – u
