Who started the religion of Tibetan Lama?
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Answer:
Dalai Lama
Explanation:
The Tibetan people gave the tittle Dalai Lama for the spiritual leader of the Gelug. Dalai lama lives as a refugee in India, and was a great successor in a line of tulkus. Actually the name Dalai means "ocean" or "big". The Dalai Lama was an important figure of the Geluk tradition. Since the time of the 5th Dalai Lama in the 17th century, his personage has always been a symbol of unification of the state of Tibet., Dalai Lama was a unifying symbol of the Tibetan state.
Gendun Drup was the first Tibetan Lama
Explanation:
Lama is a title given to the teacher of Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism.
The first Dalai Lama Pema Dorje (Gendun Drup) was born in a cattle pen in Shabtod, Tsang in 1391. His parents were nomads and goat herds. After his father's death, the mother entrusted him to his uncle, a monk at Narthang, which is a major Kadampa monastery near Shigatse, for education as a Buddhist monk.
The current Dalai Lama is the 14th in line. Tenzin Gyatso was conferred the title on 22 February 1940. He lives in exile in India.