Dalai Lamas

Dalai Lama Standard Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་ Wylie transliteration: tā la'i bla ma Tibetan pronunciation: [táːlɛː láma]
Incumbent Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama since 22 February 1940
Residence	McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India
Formation	1391
First holder	Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama /ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/ (US); /ˌdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/ (UK) (Standard Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Tā la'i bla ma; Sanskrit: दलै लामा, Dalai Lāmā; Chinese: 达赖喇嘛, pinyin: Dá lài lǎma [tǎ lâi làma], Jyutping: daat6 laai6 laa1 maa4) is a title given to spiritual leaders of the Tibetan people. They are monks of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa. The Dalai Lama title was created by Altan Khan, the Prince of Shunyi, granted by Ming Dynasty, in 1578. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso.