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The head monk of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism. The current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso and is the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Does the Dalai Lama have bodyguards?

Some security (e.g. counterintelligence, a cordon, secure premises, trusted drivers and so on) are also provided by the State he's in (e.g. the Indian governments, and/or any countries he is visiting) …
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Can there exist two Dalai Lamas at one instance of time?

It should be "14th Dalai Lama" or "14th Dalai Lama", not "14 Dalai Lama". I think that "Dalai Lama" is a title, not a name. According to Wikipedia, The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gy …
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Why can't the Dalai Lama be a vegetarian?

According to this article, Is the Dalai Lama a vegetarian? on a web site named "Reasonable Vegan", When the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 he took residence in India, the birthplace of the Buddha and …
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Within Tibetan Buddhism, are the Lamas always the same "soul"?

There's a Statement of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, on the Issue of His Reincarnation (September 24th 2011), which includes a description of "Tulku".
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How is a Dalai Lama chosen? And can it be a woman?

If someone is picked, can he refute? Someone was picked (found) when very young. This Dalai Lama Biography says, After several months of searching for a successor to the 13th Dalai Lama and followi …
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Original reference for 'The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance' by t...

The phrase appears verbatim in Handbook for the Spirit, in the first essay (the opening chapter) which is titled "Love, Compassion, and Tolerance". The author of that essay is given as (and copyright …
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Is low self-esteem a Western phenomenon?

I'm not sure this answer is on-topic but I guess that "self-esteem" might be an ambiguous word or difficult to translate. For example I think that "thinking that I'm important" or "having self-love" …
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