Dalai Lama
His Holiness has won the 2012 Templeton Prize
The Templeton Foundation's statement said - 'The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader whose long-standing engagement with multiple dimensions of science and with people far beyond his own religious traditions has made him an incomparable global voice for universal ethics, non-violence, and harmony among world religions, has won the 2012 Templeton Prize.'
The statement continued, the Dalai Lama ' has vigorously focused on the connections between the investigative traditions of science and Buddhism as a way to better understand and advance what both disciplines might offer the world.
Specifically, he encourages serious scientific investigative reviews of the power of compassion and its broad potential to address the world�s fundamental problems � a theme at the core of his teachings and a cornerstone of his immense popularity.
Within that search, the 'big' questions he raises � such as 'Can compassion be trained or taught?' � reflect the deep interest of the founder of the Templeton Prize, the late Sir John Templeton, in seeking to bring scientific methods to the study of spiritual claims and thus foster the spiritual progress that the Prize has recognized for the past 40 years.
The Dalai Lama will be presented with the prize at a ceremony in St. Paul�s Cathedral, London on the afternoon of Monday, May 14.
What a man the Dalai Lama is, and what an inspiration.
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Francine McKenna-Klein - German Culture Editor
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