1. DALAI LAMA
TENZIN GYATSO

2. NOBEL PRICE 1989
 IN RECOGNITION OF HIS NONVIOLENT
CAMPAIGN OVER NEARLY 40 YEARS
TO END CHINA'S DOMINATION OF HIS
HOMELAND.

3. HE SAID
 “I very much appreciate that kind of
recognition about my beliefs ”. “My case is
nothing special. I am a simple Buddhist
monk - no more, no less.”

4. HIS LIFE
 BORN: 6 JULY 1935 as LHAMO
DHONDUP
 AGE OF TWO: RECOGNISED US
REINCARNATION OF THE PREVIOUS
LAMA THUBTEN GYATSO
 HE WAS NAMED TENZIN GYATSO
 HE BEGAN HIS MONASTIC EDUCATION
AT 6

5.  AT 23 HE WAS AWARDED THE GESHE
LHARAMPA DEGREE (EQUIVALENT TO
A DOCTORATE OF BUDDHIST
PHILOSOPHY)

6. LEADER SHIP
RESPONSABILITIES
 1950 FULL POLITICAL POWER AFTER
CHINA INVASION TO THIBET.
 1954 PEACE TALKS IN CHINA.
 1959 ESCAPE IN EXIL IN DHARAMSALA
(INDIA).

7. LEADER SHIP
RESPONSABILITIES
 1964 PRESENTATION OF A DRAFT OF
DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION NAMED
“THE CHARTER OF TIBETIANS IN EXILE”

8. PEACE INITIATIVES
 1987:PROPOSAL OF A 5 POINT PEACE
PLAN FOR TIBET
 1988: IN ADRESS TO EUROPEAN
PARLEMENT IN STRASBOURG
PROPOSAL OF TALKS BETWEEN
CHINAESE AND THIBETIAN LEADERS

9. POLITICAL RETIREMENT
 2011: LETTER TO TIBETIAN PARLEMENT IN
EXILE HE REQUEST THEM TO DEVOLVE HIM
OF HIS POLITICAL POWER.
 2011: HE SIGNED THE FORMAL TRANSFER
OF HIS TEMPORAL POWER
 END OF 368 YEARS OLD TRADITION OF THE
DALAI LAMAS BEEING BOTH SPIRITUAL AND
TEMPORAL HEAD OF THIBET

10. DALAI LAMAS QUOTES
 We all have to live together, so we
might as well live together happily.
Dalai Lama
 When you practice gratefulness, there
is a sense of respect toward others.
 Disagreement is something normal.
 http://www.dalailama.com

11. PRESENTATION MADE BY
 NIKOS VELALIS
 nikoscomenius@gmail.com