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Dalai Lama  

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  • The highest ranking religious and political figure of Tibetan Buddhism. Tenzin Gyatso (1935–), the fourteenth dalai lama, was born in northeastern Tibet and, in the early twenty-first century, lived in exile in northern India. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Dalai Lama]

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