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25 unusual facts about Dalai lama


Basil Gould

In 1940, Gould attended the installation ceremonies of the 14th Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet.

Bill Paparian

In July 1996, Mayor Paparian welcomed the Dalai Lama to City Hall and presented him with a key to the city, ignoring concerns expressed by the State Department and the government of the People’s Republic of China, that there could be dire consequences for the relationship between the United States and China.

Brett Kirk

In 2008, Kirk was given the honour of meeting with the Dalai Lama during his Australian tour in which he presented the Dalai Lama with a signed Swans jersey.

Campus of the University of California, Irvine

For instance, two recent guests hosted by the Irvine Barclay Theater were His Holiness XIV Dalai Lama and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Chintpurni

The Dalai Lama (with his government-in-exile) lives in the upper part of town called McLeodganj.

David C. Turnley

In addition to publishing numerous books,he has directed an Emmy-nominated documentary for CNN on the Dalai Lama, and a feature length documentary set in Cuban dance hall, "La Tropical".

Felipe Cardeña

In 2008 Felipe Cardena prepared a gigantic panel to be shown at the street art exhibit Scala Mercalli, dedicated to the Dalai Lama.

Francis Kodankandath

The Art of Happiness was inaugurated by His Holiness Dalai Lama at Cochin, Kerala on 25 November 2012.

Fureidis

Ibtisam Mahammed of Fureidis was awarded the Dalai Lama's Unsung Heroes of Compassion prize for her efforts to promote peace between Arabs and Jews.

Goutam Ghose

Has made a number of prominent documentaries including Meeting A Milestone (on Ustad Bismillah Khan), Beyond the Himalayas, Land of Sand Dunes, Ray (On Satyajit Ray), Impermanence (On HH Dalai Lama) Made numerous AD films, corporate and other Short Films.

High Point Solutions Stadium

On September 25, 2005, Rutgers Stadium was the site of a lecture delivered by the Dalai Lama.

HPCA Stadium

The town is best known internationally as the home of the Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Jesse Helms Center

The Helms Center hosts a center-sponsored lecture series with such notable participants as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and the Dalai Lama of Tibet.

John B. Stephenson

John Stephenson established ties with a diverse group of notable people whom he brought to speak at Berea College, from Roots author Alex Haley, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, to His Holiness, The Dalai Lama.

John Eleuthère du Pont

The petition claims that during that period, du Pont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

Miri Nishri

The 120 responses she received from people around the world (including Yoko Ono, Avi Mograbi, the Dalai Lama and the Pope) were shown at an exhibition at Ha'Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery.

Philip Sugden

They were guests of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile, and spent six months in Tibetan communities throughout India, Nepal, Ladakh, and Tibet gathering images and recordings for the production entitled, White Lotus, An Introduction to Tibetan Culture, (companion book published by Snow Lion 1991).

Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet

# By the established status, functions and powers of the Dalai Lama and of the Panchen Ngoerhtehni are meant the status, functions and powers of the thirteenth Dalai Lama and the ninth Panchen Ngoerhtehni when they had friendly and amicable relations with each other.

The central authorities also will not alter the established status, functions and powers of the Dalai Lama.

Spiti Valley

Highlights include Ki Monastery and Tabo Monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in the world and a favourite of the Dalai Lama.

U Thant Peace Award

It had been bestowed by The Peace Meditation at the United Nations upon Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Kurt Waldheim the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Dada J.P. Vaswani, Swami Satchidananda and U Thant’s daughter, Daw Aye Aye Thant.

Valentin Yordanov

The petition claims that during that period, duPont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

William Commanda

He was invited in 1990 to provide a traditional blessing of the Canadian Human Rights Monument in Ottawa with the Dalai Lama.

Yuval Ron Ensemble

Some notable performances include: the International Sacred Music Festival of Fez (Morocco), International Oud Festival and peace tour (Israel), World Festival of Sacred Music (Los Angeles), headlining the Dalai Lama’s “Seeds of Compassion” benefit concert (Seattle), the International Peace Festival (South Korea), as well as concerts in Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and Poland.

Zamy Steynovitz

Consequently he is acquainted with many Nobel prize winners like Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, the Dalai Lama, Itzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Elie Wiesel, Desmond Tutu as well as many other politicians and artists.


Brigid Marlin

Her portrait of Ballard was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 1989, and she has also painted portraits of the Dalai Lama and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Nine winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, were signatories to a letter to pressure U.S. President Barack Obama to reject the $7-billion pipeline expansion project by the Canadian-based company TransCanada to build the Keystone XL.

Charter for Compassion

Among those who have already given the charter their backing are Richard Branson, musician Peter Gabriel, Sir Ken Robinson and the Dalai Lama and, as of January 22, 2012, over 83,000 other people from around the world had affirmed it.

Christopher Maher

Christopher has cooked for many world figures including HH Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama and President Bill Clinton.

Derwent Entertainment Centre

On 8 December 2009, a public talk, titled "Our Earth, who is responsible?", was held by the Dalai Lama.

Dino Zonić

Zonić's work has been performed at concert halls, festivals and theaters of Europe and the United States, including for Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama and U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Elisabet Sahtouris

She was a participant in the Humanity 3000 dialogues of the Foundation for the Future and in the Synthesis Dialogues with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala.

Fred Epstein

He was the subject of three segments of “20/20” and made news by operating on the son of the Yankee pitcher Tommy John and on a Tibetan monk for whom the Dalai Lama prayed at the institute.

George E. Hibbard

Hibbard befriended the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, Thubten Norbu, and traveled with him to India, where he was allowed in temples that would have been off-limits had it not been for his escort.

Ghosts in Tibetan culture

Some say that Dorje Shugden, the ghost of a powerful 17th-century monk, is a deity, but the Dalai Lama asserts that he is an evil spirit, which has caused a split in the Tibetan exile community.

Global Peace Index

The study is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea and is endorsed by individuals such as Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, economist Jeffrey Sachs, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, Jan Eliasson and former US president Jimmy Carter.

Gulbarga

Buddha Vihar of Siddarth trust, inaugurated by president of India, Pratibha Patil, Mallikarjun Kharge and Dalai lama on 7 January, is another place of attractions in Gulbarga, attracting all ages of community.

Happiness Is

The film features interviews with notable personalities such as His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp as well has happiness authors Daniel Gilbert, Gretchen Rubin and Darrin McMahon.

Lily Mazahery

In her most recent book, "One Can Make A Difference: Original stories by the Dalai Lama, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Dennis Kucinich, Russel Simmons, Brigitte Bardot and Dozens of Other Extraordinary Indiv.iduals" PETA founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, included a chapter on Mazahery's work on behalf of Iranian women who were persecuted based on their gender, including some who had been sentenced to execution by stoning on charges of adultery.

Litang County

A crackdown officially described as "patriotic education campaign" followed in autumn of 2007, including several politically motivated arrests and attempts to force local Tibetans to denounce the Dalai Lama.

Lobortas Classic Jewelry House

The company was purchased by Maria Vladimirovna, claimant to the headship of the Imperial Family of Russia and pretender to the titles Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, presidents of CIS countries, businessmen and entertainers.

Mark Warford

Mark Warford has written with, directed and produced notable international artists such as producer and Eurythmics co-founder, David A. Stewart, platinum-selling British soul singer, Joss Stone, and luminaries such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Harry Belafonte.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Flight of the Hummingbird, first published in North America and now available in five languages, is also a bestseller and includes essays contributed by the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai.

Myron Lowery

In September 2009, Mayor Lowery greeted visiting Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, with a fist bump, which garnered brief national news coverage.

Rebecca MacKinnon

During her time with CNN, she interviewed notable leaders including Junichiro Koizumi, Dalai Lama, Pervez Musharraf, and Mohammad Khatami.

Religion and environmentalism

In a meeting with the U.S Ambassador to the Republic of India Timothy J. Roemer, the Dalai Lama urged the U.S to engage China on climate change in Tibet.

Rizwan Khan

In 1996 he launched his interactive interview show CNN: Q&A with Riz Khan, and he has conducted interviews with guests including former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, and genomic scientist J. Craig Venter.

Sawtooth Botanical Garden

The garden was built for a visit from the 14th Dalai Lama on September 13, 2005, who blessed the garden and a finely carved 400 pound Tibetan prayer wheel filled with over one million written mantras, one of only two such prayer wheels to be erected in the United States.

Shankar Pamarthy

His caricatures on prominent people like Barack Obama, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, A. R. Rahman, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Mike Tyson, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Abdul Kalam, Charlie Chaplin, Dalai Lama, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Luciano Pavarotti, Yasser Arafat, Aung San Suu Kyi etc., received wide accolades and prominence to him.

Vedanta Kesari

Its contributors include John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon, the Englishman known for pioneering work in Tantra studies), Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, C. Rajagopalachari (the first Governor General of Independent India), T.L. Vaswani (the founder of Vaswani Mission, Pune), K.M. Munshi (the founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan), Dr Karan Singh, H.H.Dalai Lama and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.