The 14th Dalai Lama is a leader.
=== Origins in myth and legend ===Thus, according to such sources, an informal line of succession of the present Dalai Lamas as incarnations of Avalokitevara stretches back much further than Gendun Drub
 At an enthronement ceremony in Shigatse he conferred full sovereignty over Tibet on the Fifth Dalai Lama, unified for the first time since the collapse of the Tibetan Empire exactly eight centuries earlier

