There are at least 2 artists under name Dalai Lama 1) Tenzin Gyatso - the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama of Tibet 2) Dalai Lama - ukrainian indie-rock band from Lviv dalailamalviv, now known as Pleso (uk.: Плесо.) 1) Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་; Wylie: Bstan-'dzin Rgya-mtsho) (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, and as such, is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai Lama, without any qualifiers.