Tenzin Gyatso

TenzinGyatso

male, 74 years old
Tenzin Gyatso (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. As such, he is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai...
Tenzin Gyatso

TenzinGyatso

male, 32 years old (Somerville, Massachusetts, United States)
The sapphire waters of Lake Manasarovar are like pearls and to drink of them erases the sins of a hundred lifetimes.
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

male, 20 years old
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (b. April 25 1989) is the eleventh Panchen Lama. He was born in Lhari County, Tibet and was named by the current Dalai Lama,...
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

male, deceased (1968)
Thomas Merton was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in the...
Lobsang Tenzin

Lobsang Tenzin

male, 70 years old
Lobsang Tenzin, better known by the titles Professor Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche and to Tibetans as the 5th Samdhong Rinpoche (born 5 November...
Thupten Jigme Norbu

Thupten Jigme Norbu

male, 87 years old
Thupten Jigme Norbu (1922 -) is a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and is the eldest brother of the...

Chhime Rigzing

male
Chhime Rigzing is a Tibetan government official and senior spokesman for Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. He functions as a private secretary...
Herb Ritts

Herb Ritts

male, deceased (2002)
Herb Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek...
Arjia Rinpoche

Arjia Rinpoche

male
Arjia Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche' is the Abbot of Kumbum Monastery in Amdo, one of the six great centers of Buddhism in Tibet. Born to Mongolian...

Khensur Lungri Namgyel

male, 82 years old
The Venerable Khensur Lungri Namgyel, born in 1927 in Kham (eastern Tibet) is the 101st Ganden Tripa (spiritual leader) of the Gelug sect of...