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name: "Dalai Lama"
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description: "Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born on 6th July 1935 in Taktser, in the Amdo region of north-eastern Tibet, and was recognised as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. Since 1959 he has lived in exile in Dharamsala, India. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his non-violent campaign for Tibet, and he has spent decades teaching compassion, kindness and inner peace to people of every faith and of none."
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# Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born on 6th July 1935 in Taktser, in the Amdo region of north-eastern Tibet, and was recognised as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. Since 1959 he has lived in exile in Dharamsala, India. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his non-violent campaign for Tibet, and he has spent decades teaching compassion, kindness and inner peace to people of every faith and of none.

**Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism**

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