H.H.Dalai Lama wins the 2012 Templeton Prize

[Mr. G]

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – 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, nonviolence, and harmony among world religions, has won the 2012 Templeton Prize.

For decades, Tenzin Gyatso, 76, the 14th Dalai Lama - a lineage believed by followers to be the reincarnation of an ancient Buddhist leader who epitomized compassion – 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.

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[Mr. G]

[plwk]

Common sense... what's that?

[catmoon]

Common sense... what's that?

It's an ancient and very secret Tibetan teaching. It's almost completely unknown in the West.

[padma norbu]

Looks like the HHDL got himself some new Chogyam Trungpa glasses.

[Will]

The ceremony may be seen live from London tomorrow 14 May:

http://dalailama.com/liveweb