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When Lhamo Thondup was born at Taktser in Amdo in northeastern Tibet on July 6 in 1935, his small farmer parents had no inkling that he would someday be revered not only by the Tibetans and the Buddhists around the world, but also by countless others. Life, however, took a turn for Lhamo when he was just two. He was identified as the ‘reincarnation’ of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, who had passed away in 1933. He was taken to Lhasa and was enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama in February 1940, a few months before his fifth birthday.
Over the next 85 years, with Tibetans venerating him as a manifestation of ‘Avalokiteshvara’ and the Communist Party of China portraying him as a ‘splittist’, the world saw him emerge as the global icon of compassion, who did not shun the path of peace and non-violence even while leading his people in resisting the aggression by one of the ‘Big Powers’.
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