The Dalai Lama, now fifteen years old, is formally enthroned as the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet.
For example, the first major split of Muslims, into Sunnis and Shiites, was over who should succeed Mohammed as temporal leader, or righteous caliph.
Priests accompanied every expedition and were always counselors to the temporal leaders.
Eventually, Tibet produced its own religious figures who also became the country's temporal leaders.
His modern followers are among the most mystical and spiritual of Hasidim since they have no temporal leader.
He took the title shabdrung, becoming the temporal and spiritual leader of Bhutan under a dual system of government.
Much work is still to be done, by both the spiritual and temporal leaders, before our land can truly be described as Christ's empire.
He our rightful temporal leader, Jaan our mental one.
The temporal leader of the Yazidi people is known as an Emir or Prince.
He held meetings there with Hadrian I, and the two leaders, spiritual and temporal, each seeking political self advantage from the other, came to certain understandings.
