<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, an exiled spiritual and temporal leader of six million Tibetan Buddhists, a philosopher-scientist, an author, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, received the honour Thursday, the Christian Science Monitor reported.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;I think he has become the best known Buddhist in the world,&quot; says John Berthrong, former academic dean at Boston University&#39;s School of Theology.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The award honours a living person who has made exceptional contributions to affirming life&#39;s spiritual dimension. The Prize is a monetary award of about $1.7 million.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The award has been given to other high-profile religious leaders in the past, such as Mother Teresa and the Rev. Billy Graham.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   He was chosen to become the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people at age two. He was forced into exile at age 24 to try to avoid a conflict in Lhasa in China.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Since then, he has travelled the world, meeting political leaders, learning about other religions, absorbing everything he couldn&#39;t learn in the closed society of Tibet, such as Einstein&#39;s Theory of Relativity, said the Templeton Foundation in its press release.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   In its announcement of the award, which is worth about $1.7 million this year, the foundation noted how the Dalai Lama has focused on the connections between the investigative traditions of science and Buddhism &quot;as a way to better understand and advance what both disciplines might offer the world&quot;.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Last year, the Dalai Lama retired as the temporal head of Tibet, ending 400 years of religious monarchy. &quot;I deliberately, voluntarily, happily, proudly end that,&quot; he said on NBC&#39;s &quot;Today&quot; show last July 18.</div>

The Dalai Lama has won the Templeton Prize for exceptional contribution to "affirming life's spiritual dimension by spreading his message of compassion worldwide".

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