His Holiness The Dalai Lama Of Tibet - Pop Art Warhol style poster


      

        
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                  His Holiness The Dalai
                  Lama Of Tibet

                  

                  The Dalai Lama is a monk
                  of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism,

                  the newest of the schools
                  of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa.The 14th and current
                  Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso.

                  The Dalai Lama is considered
                  to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed to be
                  incarnations of Avalokitevara,

                  the Bodhisattva of Compassion,
                  called Chenrezig in Tibetan.

                  The name is a combination
                  of the Mongolic word dalai meaning "ocean" and the
                  Tibetan word (bla-ma) meaning "guru, teacher, mentor".

                  The Tibetan word "lama"
                  corresponds to the better known Sanskrit word "guru".

                  From 1642 until the 1950s
                  (except for 1705 to 1750), the Dalai Lamas or their regents headed
                  the Tibetan government or Ganden Phodrang

                  which governed all or most
                  of the Tibetan plateau from Lhasa with varying degrees of autonomy,
                  up to complete sovereignty.

                  This government also enjoyed
                  the patronage and protection of firstly Mongol kings of the Khoshut
                  and Dzungar Khanates (1642 1720)

                  and then of the emperors
                  of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1720 1912).



                  Despite his humble beginnings, being born on a straw mat in a
                  cowshed to a farmer's family in a remote part of Tibet,

                  the 14th Dalai Lama had become
                  the joint most popular world leader by 2013, according to a poll
                  conducted by Harris Interactive of New York,

                  which sampled public opinion
                  in the USA and six major European countries.

                  The 14th Dalai Lama was not
                  formally enthroned until 17 November 1950, during the Battle
                  of Chamdo with the People's Republic of China.

                  In 1951, the Dalai Lama and
                  the Tibetan government were forced to accept the Seventeen Point
                  Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet

                  by which it became formally
                  incorporated into the People's Republic of China.

                  Fearing for his life in the
                  wake of a revolt in Tibet in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled to
                  India, from where he led a government in exile.

                   

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