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Dalai Lama
see synonyms of dalai lamaNoun
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Dalai Lama
see synonyms of dalai lamanoun
1.
(until 1959) the chief lama and ruler of Tibet
2.
born 1935, the 14th holder of this office (1940), who fled to India (1959): Nobel peace prize 1989
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Dalai Lama
see synonyms of dalai lama the traditional high priest of Lamaism
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Dalai Lama
see synonyms of dalai laman.
The traditional temporal head of the dominant sect of Buddhism in Tibet and Mongolia, revered by Tibetan Buddhists as the living incarnation of the bodhisattva of compassion.
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