His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) was born on 6 July 1935. At fifteen, he became Tibet’s Head of State during the occupation by the People’s Republic of China. After the Tibetan resistance collapsed in 1959, he fled to India and helped establish the Central Tibetan Administration, working to preserve Tibetan culture and education. He has promoted Buddhism, universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony. In 1989, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his writings and leadership on international conflicts, human rights, and environmental issues.

Rajiv Mehrotra has been a personal student of the Dalai Lama for over twenty years and serves as Trustee and Secretary of The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A judge for the Templeton Prize for Religion, he has addressed plenary sessions of the World Economic Forum and was elected a Global Leader for Tomorrow. He has also hosted India’s l