The current Dalai Lama is the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who from 1959 has lived in exile in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He was born as Lhamo Thondup in 1935 in Takster, Tibet, He was identified as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama when he was 2 years old and he has been the Dalai Lama since 1950.
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