Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo ("Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", layname: Yonten Phuntsok) ( Years: 1472 1473 1474 - 1475 - 1476 1477 1478 Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Events August 29 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England. First book printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges. Births February 25... 1475- Years: 1538 1539 1540 - 1541 - 1542 1543 1544 Decades: 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Events The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish February 12 - Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile. May 8 - Hernando de Soto reaches the... 1541) was the second This article describes the office of Dalai Lama. For the 14th holder of the office (born 1935), see Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. Contents // 1 Early years 2 Political career 3 International influence 4 Writings of the Dalai Lama 5 Films about the Dalai Lama 6... Dalai Lama. He was proclaimed the reincarnation of -1... Gedun Drub as a young boy.

Legend has it that soon after he learned to speak, he told his parents his name was Pema Dorje, the birth name of the first Dalai Lama. When he was four, he reportedly told his parents he wished to live in the Tashilhumpo monastery to be with his monks. He was a renowned scholar and composer of mystical poetry, who traveled widely to extend Gelugpa influence, and became abbot of the largest Gelugpa monastery, Drepung, which from this time on was closely associated with the Dalai Lamas.

When the high priests came looking for the incarnation of the previous Dalai Lama, they found him when he was 17 years old. Apparently, he told the priests that he had been waiting for them.