Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OSLO--The Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet whose title means Ocean of Mercy, won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for decades of non-violent struggle to free his country from China...
Analysts also said it might help eventually to break the deadlock between China. which has occupied the Himalayan nation since 1950, and the Dalai Lama, who leads an exile government based in India...
...citation, the committee mentioned the Dalai Lama's rejection of violence and his preachings of respect for all living things. It praised his "constructive and forward-looking proposals for the solution of international conflicts...
...Dalai Lama, 54, was born Tenzin Gyatso. The son of a poor farmer, he was named spiritual and temporal ruler as the 14th Dalai Lama at age five, just before the Chinese army marched into Tibet. He fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule...
...Angeles, where he was attending a conference, the Dalai Lama said, "I very much appreciate that kind of recognition about my beliefs. In fact. I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential...