14th Dalai Lama

== Public image ==
[[File:President Barack Obama greets His Holiness the Dalai Lama (27591124962).jpg|thumb|The Dalai Lama meeting with U.S. President [[Barack Obama]] in 2016]]
[[File:77letDalajLamy3.jpg|thumb|Buddhist temple in [[Kalmykia]], Russia]]

The Dalai Lama places highly in global surveys of the world's most admired men, ranking with [[Pope Francis]] as among the world's religious leaders cited as the most admired.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Regina A. Corso |title=The Dalai Lama, President Obama and Pope Francis at Highest Levels of Popularity in U.S. and Five Largest European Countries |url=http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/1199/Default.aspx |publisher=Harris, A Nielsen Company |location=New York |date=29 May 2013 |access-date=1 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405165043/http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/1199/Default.aspx |archive-date=5 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Matthew Smith|title=World's most admired 2020|publisher=[[YouGov]]|url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2020/09/23/worlds-most-admired-2020|date=22 September 2020|access-date=27 September 2020|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929020601/https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2020/09/23/worlds-most-admired-2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Dalai Lama's appeal is variously ascribed to his charismatic personality, international fascination with Buddhism, his [[universalist]] values, and international sympathy for the Tibetans.<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/dec/15/china-dalai-lama-exile-tibetans |title = The Next Dalai Lama: China has a choice |first = Dibyesh |last = Anand |work = The Guardian |date = 15 December 2010 |access-date = 19 December 2010 |location = London |archive-date = 6 January 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210106164016/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/dec/15/china-dalai-lama-exile-tibetans |url-status = live }}</ref> In the 1990s, many films were released by the [[Cinema of the United States|American film industry]] about Tibet, including [[biopics]] of the Dalai Lama. This is attributed to both the Dalai Lama's 1989 Nobel Peace Prize as well as to the euphoria following the [[Fall of Communism]]. The most notable films, ''[[Kundun]]'' and ''[[Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)|Seven Years in Tibet]]'' (both released in 1997), portrayed "an idyllic pre-1950 Tibet, with a smiling, soft-spoken Dalai Lama at the helm—a Dalai Lama sworn to [[non-violence]]": portrayals the Chinese government decried as [[ahistorical]].<ref>{{Cite book |title = Tibet |first=Michael |last=Buckley |publisher = [[Bradt Travel Guides]] |year=2006 |edition=2 |isbn = 978-1-84162-164-7 |page = [https://archive.org/details/tibetbuck00buck/page/35 35] |url = https://archive.org/details/tibetbuck00buck |url-access = registration |access-date = 5 December 2010}}</ref>

The Dalai Lama has his own pages on [[Twitter]],<ref>{{cite web |url = https://twitter.com/DalaiLama |title = Dalai Lama |publisher = Twitter.com |access-date = 15 August 2014 |archive-date = 27 April 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210427120001/https://twitter.com/DalaiLama |url-status = live }}</ref> [[Facebook]],<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.facebook.com/DalaiLama/ |title = Dalai Lama |publisher = Facebook.com |access-date = 17 July 2013 |archive-date = 8 April 2005 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050408055255/https://www.facebook.com/#!/DalaiLama |url-status = live }}</ref> and [[Instagram]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://instagram.com/dalailama/ |title = Dalai Lama: Instagram |access-date = 14 July 2015 |archive-date = 18 August 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150818234346/https://instagram.com/dalailama/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

[[File:Dalai Lama and Bishop Tutu. Carey Linde.jpg|thumb|The Dalai Lama with Bishop [[Desmond Tutu]] in 2004]]
The Dalai Lama has tried to mobilise international support for Tibetan activities.<ref>Fisher, D., Shahghasemi, E. & Heisey, D. R. (2009). A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Midwest CIES 2009 Conference, Ohio, U.S.</ref> The Dalai Lama has been successful in gaining Western support for himself and the cause of greater Tibetan autonomy, including vocal support from numerous [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] celebrities, most notably the actors [[Richard Gere]] and [[Steven Seagal]], as well as lawmakers from several major countries.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100812174009/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/dalailama/interview.html Interview] with ''[[CBC News]]'', 16 April 2004</ref> Photos of the Dalai Lama were banned after [[1959 Tibetan uprising|March 1959 Lhasa protests]] until after the end of the [[Cultural Revolution]] in 1976. In 1996 the Chinese Communist Party once again reinstated the total prohibition of any photo of the 14th Dalai Lama. According to the Tibet Information Network, "authorities in Tibet have begun banning photographs of the exiled Dalai Lama in monasteries and public places, according to reports from a monitoring group and a Tibetan newspaper. Plainclothes police went to hotels and restaurants in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on 22 and 23 April and ordered Tibetans to remove pictures of the Dalai Lama{{nbsp}}..."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-05-01/news/9605010131_1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322024650/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-05-01/news/9605010131_1|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 March 2016|title=Photos of Dalai Lama Banned in Monasteries Across Tibet – tribunedigital-chicagotribune|date=22 March 2016|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref> The ban continues in many locations throughout Tibet today.

=== In the media ===
The 14th Dalai Lama has appeared in several non-fiction films including:
* ''[[10 Questions for the Dalai Lama]]'' (2006, documentary)
* ''[[Dalai Lama Renaissance]]'' (2007, documentary)
* ''[[The Sun Behind the Clouds]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Bringing Tibet Home]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Monk with a Camera]]'' (2014, documentary)
* ''[[Dalai Lama Awakening]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Compassion in Action]]'' (2014)

He has been depicted as a character in various other movies and television programs including:

* ''[[Kundun]]'', 1997 film directed by [[Martin Scorsese]]
* [[Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)|''Seven Years in Tibet'']], 1997 film starring [[Brad Pitt]] and [[David Thewlis]]
* ''[[Klovn]]'' "Dalai Lama" Season 1, Episode 4 (2005)
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode [[Meltdown (Red Dwarf)|"Meltdown"]] (1991)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684164/fullcredits|title="Red Dwarf" Meltdown (TV Episode 1991)|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=1 July 2018|archive-date=3 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103170601/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684164/fullcredits|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''Song of Tibet'', 2000 film directed by [[Xie Fei (director)|Xie Fei]].
* The Great Escape "14th Dalai Lama" (2018) on [[Epic (TV channel)|Epic]]
* "Dalai Lama," episode of the Indian television series ''Mega Icons'' (2019–20) on [[National Geographic India|National Geographic]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Mega Icons Season 1 Episode 5 |url=https://www.hotstar.com/in/tv/mega-icons/1260000382/dalai-lama/1770019091 |website=[[Disney+ Hotstar]] |language=en |access-date=12 June 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200957/https://www.hotstar.com/in/tv/mega-icons/1260000382/dalai-lama/1770019091 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Dalai Lama was featured on 5 March 2017, episode of the [[HBO]] [[late-night talk show]] ''[[Last Week Tonight with John Oliver|Last Week Tonight]]'', in which host [[John Oliver]] conducted a comedic interview with the Dalai Lama, focusing on the topics of Tibetan sovereignty, [[Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China|Tibetan self-immolations]], and his succession plans.<ref>{{Citation|title=Dalai Lama: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)|date=5 March 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLY45o6rHm0|access-date=7 September 2017|archive-date=12 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412152102/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLY45o6rHm0|url-status=live}}</ref>{{relevance inline|reason= please explain why this is historically relevant|date=February 2018}}

A biographical [[graphic novel]], ''Man of Peace,'' also envisaging the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet, was published by [[Tibet House US]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Man of Peace Graphic Novel |url=https://tibethouse.us/man-of-peace-graphics-novel/ |website=tibethouse.us |publisher=Tibet House US |access-date=28 March 2021 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126014804/https://tibethouse.us/man-of-peace-graphics-novel/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Samphel |first1=Thubten |title=Review: Man of Peace – The Illustrated Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/review-man-of-peace-the-illustrated-story-of-the-dalai-lama-of-tibet/story-YJrXNSkScYLHCX4ygoZoPP.html |access-date=22 October 2019 |work=Hindustan Times |date=9 February 2018 |archive-date=22 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022173730/https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/review-man-of-peace-the-illustrated-story-of-the-dalai-lama-of-tibet/story-YJrXNSkScYLHCX4ygoZoPP.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  ''The Extraordinary Life of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illuminated Journey,'' illustrations and text by artist Rima Fujita, narrated by the Dalai Lama, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2021.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Extraordinary Life of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, An Illuminated Journey |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Extraordinary-Life-of-His-Holiness-the-Fourteenth-Dalai-Lama/Dalai-Lama/9781614297499 |date=8 June 2021 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781614297499 |access-date=6 July 2021 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185443/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Extraordinary-Life-of-His-Holiness-the-Fourteenth-Dalai-Lama/Dalai-Lama/9781614297499 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Awards and honours ===
[[File:Dalai Lama Congressional Medal.jpg|thumb|The [[Congressional Gold Medal]] was awarded to Tenzin Gyatso in 2007]]
[[File:Bush, Byrd and Pelosi awarding the Dalai Lama.jpg|thumb|The Dalai Lama receiving a [[Congressional Gold Medal]] in 2007. ''From left'': Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [[Nancy Pelosi]], Senate President ''pro tempore'' [[Robert Byrd]] and U.S. President [[George W. Bush]]]]

The Dalai Lama has received numerous awards and honours worldwide over his spiritual and political career.<ref>{{cite web |title=Award & Honors 1957–1999 |url=https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/events-and-awards/major-awards-and-honorary-conferments/award-honors-1957-1999 |website=dalailama.com |publisher=Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama |access-date=28 March 2021 |archive-date=27 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427154933/https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/events-and-awards/major-awards-and-honorary-conferments/award-honors-1957-1999 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Awards & Honors 2000 – present |url=https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/events-and-awards/major-awards-and-honorary-conferments |website=dalailama.com |publisher=Office of His Holiness the Dala Lama |access-date=28 March 2021 |archive-date=16 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416160009/https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/events-and-awards/major-awards-and-honorary-conferments |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.tibet.com/DL/awards.html |title=List of awards |publisher=Replay.waybackmachine.org |access-date=17 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090327172930/http://www.tibet.com/DL/awards.html |archive-date=27 March 2009 }}</ref> For a more complete list see [[Awards and honours presented to the 14th Dalai Lama]].

After the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre]], the [[Norwegian Nobel Committee]] awarded him the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.<ref name="Cherian">{{cite news |url = http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2722/stories/20101105272202800.htm |title=Not so noble |first=John |last=Cherian |publisher=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |volume=27 |issue=23 |date=November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120910140258/http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2722/stories/20101105272202800.htm |archive-date=10 September 2012 }}</ref> The Committee officially gave the prize to the Dalai Lama for "the struggle of the liberation of Tibet and the efforts for a peaceful resolution"<ref>{{cite web |url = http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1989/presentation-speech.html |title = Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee |publisher = Nobelprize.org |access-date = 2 May 2010 |archive-date = 6 September 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080906163726/http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1989/presentation-speech.html |url-status = live }}</ref> and "in part a tribute to the memory of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/gandhi/ |title = Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate |publisher = Nobelprize.org |access-date = 12 March 2014 |archive-date = 30 May 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130530232214/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/gandhi/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

He has also been awarded the:
* 1959 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership;<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationDalaiLam.htm |title = 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership – Dalai Lama |website=Replay.waybackmachine.org |date=5 January 2009 |access-date=17 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090105224323/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationDalaiLam.htm |archive-date=5 January 2009 }}</ref>
* 1994 [[Four Freedoms Award#Freedom Medal|Freedom Medal]] from the [[Roosevelt Institute]];<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/four-freedoms-awards |title=Four Freedoms Awards |publisher=Roosevelt Institute |access-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150325223647/http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/four-freedoms-awards |archive-date=25 March 2015 }}</ref>
* 2005 [[Christmas Humphreys]] Award from the [[Buddhist Society]] in the United Kingdom;
* 2007 [[Congressional Gold Medal]], the highest civilian award bestowed by the American Congress and President.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/washington/18lama.html?_r=0 |title = Bush and Congress Honor Dalai Lama |work = The New York Times |date = 18 October 2007 |access-date = 9 January 2013 |first = Brian |last = Knowlton |archive-date = 14 May 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130514174619/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/washington/18lama.html?_r=0 |url-status = live }}</ref> The Chinese government declared this would have "an extremely serious impact" on relations with the United States;<ref>{{cite news |last1=Haberman |first1=Clyde |title=A Hubbub Over a Visit by the Dalai Lama? Not in New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/nyregion/19nyc.html |access-date=2 April 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=19 October 2007 |archive-date=2 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402134531/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/nyregion/19nyc.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2006 [[:ru:Орден Белого лотоса|Order of the White Lotus]] by the [[Republic of Kalmykia]] for outstanding services and significant contribution to the spiritual revival and prosperity of the republic.<ref name="savetibet.ru-2021">{{Cite web|title = Его Святейшеству Далай-ламе присвоен Орден Республики Тыва|url = http://savetibet.ru/2012/02/03/dalai-lama.html|website = savetibet.ru|access-date = 30 October 2021|archive-date = 31 October 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211031062339/http://savetibet.ru/2012/02/03/dalai-lama.html|url-status = live}}</ref>
* 2007 [[Ahimsa Award]] from the Institute of Jainology in recognition of individuals who embody and promote the principles of [[Ahimsa|Ahimsa (Non-violence)]]; and in
*2012, [[:ru:Орден Республики Тыва|Order of the Republic of Tuva]] by the [[Tuvan Republic]] in recognition of the contribution to the upbringing of high spiritual and cultural tolerance, strengthening interreligious and interethnic harmony.<ref name="savetibet.ru-2021" />
* 2012, the [[Templeton Prize]].<ref>{{cite news |title = Dalai Lama Wins 2012 Templeton Prize |url = http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=375500002 |access-date = 30 March 2012 |newspaper = Philanthropy News Daily |date = 30 March 2012 |archive-date = 23 May 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130523192906/http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=375500002 |url-status = live }}</ref> He donated the prize money to the charity [[Save the Children]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.indianexpress.com/news/dalai-lama-gives-templeton-prize-money-to-indian-charity/949181/ |title = Dalai Lama gives Templeton Prize money to Indian charity |date = 14 May 2010 |access-date = 15 May 2012 |archive-date = 14 November 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121114054424/http://www.indianexpress.com/news/dalai-lama-gives-templeton-prize-money-to-indian-charity/949181/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 2006, he became one of only six people ever to be granted [[Honorary Citizenship of Canada]].  In 2007 he was named Presidential [[Distinguished Professor]] at [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], the first time he accepted a university appointment.<ref name="emory">{{cite web |url=http://news.emory.edu/Releases/DalaiLama1170686715.html |title=Dalai Lama named Emory distinguished professor |publisher=News.emory.edu |access-date=2 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081005190343/http://news.emory.edu/Releases/DalaiLama1170686715.html |archive-date=5 October 2008 }}</ref> He is the chief Patron of the [[Maha Bodhi Society]] of India, conferred upon him at the 2008 Annual General Meeting of the Maha Bodhi Society of India.<ref>{{Cite web|date=28 September 2008|first=Ratnottama|last=Sengupta|title=Now, Hindus can't head Mahabodhi Society|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/now-hindus-cant-head-mahabodhi-society/articleshow/3535612.cms|access-date=16 February 2021|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626164533/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/now-hindus-cant-head-mahabodhi-society/articleshow/3535612.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>