• Trimön, a Tibetan conservative politician and governor was one of the officials involved in the search and recognition of the reincarnated 14th Dalai Lama in 1935?

Facts on topics related to 14th Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

• Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh, where the Dalai Lama (pictured) established his capital in exile in 1960, was cultivated by Guru Rinpoche in the 8th century?
• Dorje Pakmo ('The Diamond Sow') is the highest female incarnation in Tibet, and the third-highest ranking person in the lamaist hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama?
• Lt. John Weston Brooke, a veteran of the Second Boer War and an explorer with the East African Syndicate, was the first Englishman to gain an audience with the Dalai Lama, in 1906?
• the Thikse Monastery in India is called Mini-Potala because of its structural similarity to the former residence of the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace in Tibet?

3rd Dalai Lama

• in 1578 the 3rd Dalai Lama converted the Mongol leader Altan Khan, who persuaded Mongols to convert, built Mongolia's first monastery, and within 50 years most Mongols were Buddhist?