Dalai Lama

Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacher
Intangible position Q37349
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Dalai Lama

Summary

Dalai Lama is a position[1]. It ranks in the top 0.28% of position entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,909 views/month, #10 of 3,525).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dalai Lama's religion is recorded as Tibetan Buddhism[3].
  • Dalai Lama's religion is recorded as Gelug[4].
  • Dalai Lama's instance of is recorded as position[5].
  • Dalai Lama's instance of is recorded as tulku lineage[6].
  • Dalai Lama's official residence is recorded as Dharamshala[7].
  • Dalai Lama is a type of spiritual leader[8].
  • Dalai Lama is a type of head of government[9].
  • Dalai Lama's Commons category is recorded as Dalai Lamas[10].
  • Dalai Lama's honorific prefix is recorded as His Holiness[11].
  • 1300 marks the founding of Dalai Lama[12].
  • Dalai Lama's official website is recorded as https://www.dalailama.com[13].
  • Dalai Lama's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dalai Lamas[14].
  • Dalai Lama's position holder is recorded as Tenzin Gyatso[15].
  • Dalai Lama's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Dalai Lama's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[17].
  • Dalai Lama's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[18].
  • Dalai Lama's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • Dalai Lama's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[20].
  • Dalai Lama's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'bo', 'text': 'ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་'}[21].
  • Dalai Lama's different from is recorded as Dalailama[22].
  • Dalai Lama's different from is recorded as Tenzin Gyatso[23].
  • Dalai Lama's incarnation of is recorded as Avalokiteśvara[24].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include position[5] and tulku lineage[6]. Recorded subclass of include spiritual leader[8] and head of government[9].

Origins

1300 marks the founding of Dalai Lama[12].

Why It Matters

Dalai Lama ranks in the top 0.28% of position entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,909 views/month, #10 of 3,525).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of
    Incarnation of Avalokiteśvara
    Inception +1300-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Position holder Tenzin Gyatso
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007540970405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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