Old Photograph

Tenzin's Namesake, HH The Dalai Lama - Age Three

The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, in 1939 as a young boy sitting on a bent wood chair. He is wearing a hat with turned up ear flaps, a Tibetan robe and holding a sheet of paper in his hand. This photograph was taken at the time of his identification as the Dalai Lama in Amdo by an unknown Chinese photographer.