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Peacemaker: Dalai Lama.

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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