Thondup was called the second-most influential person in that small, increasingly isolated Himalayan territory, eclipsed only by his brother, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama and head of Tibetan ...

Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

Born into a farming family in 1935 in what was then northeastern Tibet, the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was recognized ... believe that the Dalai Lama is the 14th reincarnation of previous Dalai ...

Tenzin Gyatso, recognized as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, hence leading a spiritual path, but Thondup was groomed for ...

China's coercive and violently assimilationist policies towards its religious and racial minorities are not unknown. Despite ...

NEW DELHI—Speculation is focusing on who will succeed the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, who turns 90 in July. The head of Tibetan Buddhism, who is in exile in the northern Indian ...

Each Dalai Lama is considered to be the reincarnation of the first one and the current Dalai Lama is the 14th in the line. While the Dalai Lama maintains that only he has the authority to identify his ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the Dalai Lama, speaks to media in Dharamshala, India, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP ...

Certain omens and visions had led them to Taktser, where they conducted tests on the boy and soon recognized him as the 14th Dalai Lama, or spiritual leader, of the dominant school of Tibetan ...