Tibet’s Dalai Lama is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Peace Movement, Pacifism, Pacifists, Human Rights, Buddhism, Buddhists
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: Norway, Scandinavia, Tibet
- Date: December, 1989
Article abstract: The choice of Tibet’s exiled leader as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize focused attention on the thirty-year military occupation and annexation of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China.
Summary of Event
In 1940, a four-year-old peasant boy, Tenzin Gyatso, born in a cowshed in the tiny farming village of Takster in 1935, was installed by Buddhist monks as the fourteenth Dalai Lama (meaning “ocean of wisdom”). In Tibet, the Dalai Lama was the absolute spiritual and temporal head of his country. The devotion of the intensely...
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