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In one sense, the present Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso) has been that since his birth on 6 July 1935. However since the present Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of all previous Dalai Lama, he could be said to have been in that position since the First Dalai Lama, Gedun Drupa, who was was born in 1391

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