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Lama Title Tibet Dalai Originally Meaning Universal Priest

Front dalai lama
Back Originally, a title meaning 'universal priest' that the Mongol khans invented and bestowed on a Tibetan lama (priest) in the late 1500s to legitimate their power in Tibet. Subsequently, the title of the religious and political leader of Tibet.

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