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unusual facts about Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama



Basil Gould

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

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.

Buddhism in South Africa

His Holiness the Dalai Lama attended the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1999, but was denied a visa when he was asked to attend an international peace conference in March 2009.

Common Ground Project

The Common Ground between Islam and Buddhism project is an interfaith initiative originated by HH the Dalai Lama and HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan.

Derwent Entertainment Centre

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

Dzogchen

The Fifth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth (present) Dalai Lamas (Wylie: ta la'i bla ma) are also noted Dzogchen masters, although their adoption of the practice of Dzogchen has been a source of controversy among more conservative members of the Gelug (Wylie: dge lugs) tradition.

Erling Mandelmann

Erling Mandelmann has taken more than 500 portraits of personalities, including amongst others Noël Coward, 14th Dalai Lama, Nina Hagen, Johnny Hallyday, Prince Hans-Adam of Lichtenstein.

Garrison Institute

Teachers and presenters at the Garrison Institute have included Adyashanti, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Rajmohan Gandhi, Philip Glass, Daniel Goleman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Paul Hawken, Father Thomas Keating, Sharon Salzberg, Pete Seeger, Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, Peter Senge, Lama Surya Das, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and many others.

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.

Ján Langoš

The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet was awarded the Ján Langoš Human Rights award in Bratislava, Slovakia by Jan Langos Foundation on 9 September 2009.

Jonang

Taranatha's influence on Gelugpa thinking continues even to this day in the teaching of the present 14th Dalai Lama, who actively promotes initiation into Kalachakra.

Interestingly, one of the primary supporters of the Jonang lineage in exile has been the 14th Dalai Lama of the Gelugpa lineage.

Lati Rinpoche

On arrival in Dharamsala, he was appointed as the Spiritual Advisor to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

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.

Lobsang Rampa

In 1972, Rampa's French language agent Alain Stanké wrote to the Dalai Lama and asked for his opinion about Rampa's identity.

Murray M. Silver, Jr.

While making the movie of his book, Silver was introduced to the XIVth Dalai Lama by mutual friend, Richard Gere.

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.

Norbulingka

To the north of Tsokyil Phodrong is the Takten Migyur Phodrong which was built in 1954 by 14th Dalai Lama and is the most elegant palace in the complex, a fusion of a temple and villa.

Tenzing Gyatso, the present 14th Dalai Lama in the order stayed here before he fled to India.

Peace Mala

The website includes news articles relating to Peace Mala activities and endorsements from prominent religious leaders, political dignitaries and celebrities including the Pope John Paul II, the 14th Dalai Lama, Jillian Evans MEP, Sir Mark Tully Beth Nielsen Chapman, Bonnie Tyler and Barbara Dickson.

Project Happiness

During the filming, the students involved conducted interviews with scientists, celebrities, and world political and spiritual leaders including Richard Gere, Dr. Richard Davidson, Adam Yauch, the late Nirmala Deshpande, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, George Lucas, and Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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

Rikon im Tösstal

The monastic Tibet Institute Rikon was founded, according to the advice and under the patronage of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

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.

Roy Bonisteel

In the next 22 years, Bonisteel would go on to interview Malcolm Muggeridge, Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, 14th Dalai Lama, Hans Küng and many others.

Runggye Adak

He seized the microphone during a speech at a horse-racing festival in Lithang, and proceeded to call for the return of the Dalai Lama and the release of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the present Dalai Lama's candidate for Panchen Lama, and of Tenzin Delek, a lama from Lithang who was sentenced to life in prison for alleged involvement in terrorism, and the independence of Tibet.

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.

Tashi Dondrup

It contains thirteen songs telling of nostalgia for the exiled 14th Dalai Lama, and remembering the crackdown that followed the 2008 Lhasa violence.

Terrorism in China

The uprising was suppressed by Chinese forces, leading to the flight of the 14th Dalai Lama and some 100,000 other Tibetans to India.

The Power of Buddhism

The Power of Buddhism is a 1999 book written by Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carrière.

Tibetan diaspora

Tibetan emigration happened in two waves: one in 1959 following the 14th Dalai Lama's self-exile in India, and the other in the 1980s when Tibet was opened to trade and tourism.

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.

Vishva Hindu Parishad

Several representatives from the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain faiths were present in the meeting, as well as the Dalai Lama.


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