| 100% | TIBETAN | 7 | Like the Dalai Lama |
| 100% | EXILED | 6 | Like the Dalai Lama |
| 94% | LHASAN | 6 | Like the Dalai Lama, historically |
| 93% | INEXILE | 7 | Like the Dalai Lama since 1959 |
| 70% | HIS | 3 | ___ Holiness the Dalai Lama |
| 68% | SPIRITUALLEADER | 15 | The Dalai Lama, e.g. |
| 66% | TIBET | 5 | Home of the Dalai Lama |
| 66% | TIBET | 5 | Country of the Dalai Lama |
| 66% | TIBET | 5 | Homeland of the Dalai Lama |
| 66% | TIBET | 5 | Region for the Dalai Lama |
| 65% | EXILE | 5 | The Dalai Lama went into it in 1959 |
| 65% | TIBET | 5 | Spiritual home of the Dalai Lama |
| 65% | KUNDUN | 6 | Scorsese movie about the Dalai Lama |
| 65% | TIBETANSOLDIER | 14 | Defender of the Dalai Lama? [b] |
| 64% | TIBETAN | 7 | The Dalai Lama is a central figure in __ Buddhism |
| 64% | TIBETAN | 7 | __ Buddhism; religion followed by the Dalai Lama |
| 64% | TIBET | 5 | Pre-exile home of the Dalai Lama |
| 64% | INDIA | 5 | Site of the Dalai Lama's exile |
| 64% | POTALA | 6 | Former winter palace of the Dalai Lama |
| 64% | TIBET | 5 | Land the Dalai Lama is exiled from |
| 64% | LAMAS | 5 | Tibetan Buddhist teachers like the Dalai one |
| 63% | NATEBITATIBETAN | 15 | Basketball's Archibald injured the Dalai Lama, palindromically |
| 63% | TIBET | 5 | Himalayan land the Dalai Lama is exiled from |
| 63% | TIBET | 5 | Land where the Dalai Lama lived until 1959 |
| 63% | TIBETAN | 7 | Native of Lhasa, such as the Dalai Lama |
| 62% | TIBET | 5 | Land from which the Dalai Lama is in exile |
| 62% | POTALA | 6 | Lofty Tibetan ex-winter palace of the Dalai Lama |
| 60% | INNERPEACE | 10 | Topic for one of the Dalai Lama's "Little Book" series |
| 50% | PANCHEN | 7 | __ Lama, title just below the Dalai Lama |
| 50% | TENZINGYATSO | 12 | 14th Dalai Lama who was the first Tibetan to win the Nobel Peace Prize: 2 wds. |