templeton prize

Dalai Lama awarded Templeton Prize in religion, science
The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama awarded the 2012 Templeton
Prize, a $1.7 million award that is often described as the most prestigious award in religion. The Dalai
Lama is the highest-profile winner of an award that in recent years had been given to physicists and
theologians not well known to the general public, but earlier had been given to the likes of evangelist
Billy Graham and the late Mother Teresa.
 In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize .
 T he Dalai Lama is founder of the Mind & Life institute for research on science and Buddhism.
 For his work on science and religion Dalai Lama awarded the 2012 Templeton Prize .