Thich Nhat Hanh giving a dharma talk in Vietnam in 2007. Photo by Velcrow Ripper.Famed Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh was awarded the prize for “Outstanding Inner Peace.”
Tibetan Buddhist lama Geshe Tashi Tsering has been recognized on the Queen of England’s Birthday 2019 Honours List.
Ajahn Brahm performed the first Theravada nun ordination in Australia and the first in the Thai Forest Tradition.
“He moved me to my core,” said the playwright about the Peace Prize Laureate in this 2014 conversation with bell hooks.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons logo. Via ICAN on Facebook.The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, partnered with Soka Gakkai International, was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Photo via Burma Muslims on Facebook.The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions reports that Burmese Buddhist leaders were last week awarded World Harmony Awards
The Dalai Lama congratulated both Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi on their jointly-awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
There will be no Nobel Peace Prize winners in South Africa this month.
The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, which was supposed to happen in Cape Town, has been cancelled after the South African government refused a visa to the Dalai Lama.
Forty-five years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the team behind Peace is the Way Films and Peace Comics is trying to fulfill one of King’s dreams: for his friend Thich Nhat Hanh to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has announced that he will donate his £1.1 million ($1.1 million) Templeton Prize to charities.
