Read and learn about one of the most important peacemakers of the world who is still alive.
Mario and Marcos C., Year 6 students, have written about his life. Fantastic job!
His
name is Tenzin
Gyatso.
He
was born on
6 July
1935.
HE
is 78
years old.
He
lives in
Dhramsala, Nothern India where He escaped into exile after Chinese
invaded Tibet.
He
is
a religious buddhist leader and Tibet’s political reader .
He
started
his monastic education when he was 6.
He studied
medicine, monastic discipline, metaphysics, philosophy, astrology,
poetry, music, drama...
He
sat for his final examination
in Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple, during the annual Monlam (prayer)
Festival in 1959, when he was only 23.
He
passed
with honors and was awarded the Geshe Lharampa degree, the
highest-level degree, equivalent to a doctorate of Buddhist
philosophy.
He
received the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
His
religion is Buddhism.
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