Dalai Lama at 90: son of a buckwheat farmer who became a thorn in China’s side

Dalai Lama at 90: son of a buckwheat farmer who became a thorn in China’s side – in pictures

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The Dalai Lama aged six. He was born Lhamo Dhondup in 1935 to a family of buckwheat and barley farmers in what is now the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai. At the age of two, he was deemed by a search party to be the 14th reincarnation of Tibet’s spiritual and temporal leader after identifying several of his predecessor’s possessions.

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