A young leader
Recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama when he was a small child, Tenzin Gyatso took on the full leadership of Tibet as a teenager, during an extraordinarily difficult time for his people.
A voice for compassion
For decades he has traveled the world speaking about compassion, kindness, and nonviolence, becoming one of the most widely recognized moral voices of his era. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
Kindness toward difficult people
A recurring theme in his teaching is that those who behave unkindly are often suffering, and that responding with understanding rather than anger is both wiser and kinder — a message that has reached millions.

