The 14th Dalai Lama is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959, and subsequently led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamshala, India. The Nobel Peace Prize 1989, announced October 5, 1989. The 14th Dalai Lama, “for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people”. The 14th Dalai Lama: born 1935, Taktser, Tibet (now China). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).