Another Award for the Dalai Lama’s Mantel …

The Dalai Lama may be at odds with the Chinese troops currently stationed in his homeland, but the good folks at Hofstra University think he deserves the inaugural $50,000 prize for fostering interfaith harmony. Hofstra gave the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism the Guru Nanak Prize on Monday, and His Holiness will accept it in […]

The Dalai Lama may be at odds with the Chinese troops currently stationed in his homeland, but the good folks at Hofstra University think he deserves the inaugural $50,000 prize for fostering interfaith harmony.

Hofstra gave the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism the Guru Nanak Prize on Monday, and His Holiness will accept it in November in India.

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The prize, to be awarded every other year, was established in 2006 through an endowment from the family of Ishar Singh Bindra to be given by Hofstra University to individuals or organizations that have worked to facilitate the religious dialogue that is indispensable to reducing religious conflict. The prize was named for the founder of the Sikh religion and was meant to encourage understanding of various religions and to build bridges between faith

communities. Guru Nanak believed that all humans were born equal regardless of skin color, ethnicity, nationality and gender.

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