The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, is congratulated at his residence in the mountain town of Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
Posted on – Wed 26 Apr 23 at 02:33pm
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Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was presented with the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Prize by members of the Ramon Magsaysay Prize Foundation himself on Wednesday after 64 years of residence in the mountain town of Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh state.
The Dalai Lama’s office said it was the foundation’s first international award awarded to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2018 “in recognition of his heroic struggle for leading the Tibetan community in defense of the sacred religion by which they live and source of cultural inspiration”. August 1959 in the Philippines.
Known for his simplicity and typically jovial style, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mahatma Gandhi, who became the most influential leader of the 20th century for his ideas of nonviolence, preferred to attend meetings with religious leaders and Students and businesspeople lecture on the ethics of the new millennium and the art of well-being.
In 2007, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal despite protests from China.
Born on July 6, 1935 in the village of Taktser in northeastern Tibet, the Dalai Lama was recognized as the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama Thupten Gyatso at the age of two.
He fled Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, where he based his government-in-exile but never won recognition from any country.
Some 80,000 Tibetans have settled in 54 different locations in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.
