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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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Within Tibetan Buddhism, are the Lamas always the same "soul"?

Because Buddhism denies the notion of "self", it does not have a concept of Avatar, as someone literally being a reincarnation of the same "self". Tibetan Buddhism does have a notion of Tulku though, …
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Can a being be reborn into more that one body in Tibetan Buddhism?

Because Buddhism denies independent existence of substantial "self", it does not posit literal reincarnation, as in someone literally being a come back of e.g. Ananda (Buddha's favorite student). Tib …
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Is low self-esteem a Western phenomenon?

I suppose the key point here is that, from Buddhist perspective, low self-esteem is considered high self-esteem in disguise -- I've heard numerous gurus' statement's to that regard. If you look up Bu …
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