How is the dalai lama chosen

Date / Event (Tibetan Calendar Date)

17 December 1933 / Thirteenth Dalai Lama Passes Away in Lhasa at the age of 57 (Water-Bird Year, 10th month, 30th day)

6 July 1935 / Born in Taktser, Amdo, Tibet (Wood-Pig Year, 5th month, 5th day)

July 1939 / Departs Amdo for three-month journey to Lhasa

1939 / Public Declaration of the Official Recognition of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama near town of Bumchen

8 October 1939 / Enters Lhasa after three-month journey from Amdo (Earth-Hare Year, 8th month, 25th day)

22 February 1940 / Enthronement Ceremony (Iron-Dragon Year, 1st month, 14th day)

1940 / Begins monastic education at the age of five

1942 / Receives Vows of Novice Monk from Taktra Rinpoche (1st month, 10th day)

17 November 1950 / Assumes full temporal (political) power after China's invasion of Tibet in 1949 (Iron-Tiger Year, 10th month, 11th day)

16 December 1950 / Departs Lhasa for Dromo because of Chinese threat

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