Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. He was proclaimed the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama at age 5 and took responsibility for Tibet at age 15 when China invaded, forcing him to flee to India in 1959. As the Dalai Lama, he is revered as the highest spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and has advocated for Tibetan independence, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.