Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama was presented the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation on 4 January 2011, the fourth day of the ten-day Kalachakra initiations. The grand daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Ila Gandhi, presented the award, instituted in 2003, to the Dalai Lama at the Kalachakra ground.
Ila Gandhi, who is based in South Africa, is chairman of the Gandhi Development Trust that gives the award.
Tibetan Nobel Peace Laureate on the occasion encouraged everyone to use human intelligence in challenging and overcoming negative emotions with positive emotions. He mentioned in his speech that disarmament is needed to attain complete non-violence.
He also mentioned that mental peace results in non-violent actions and mental unrest causest he opposite. He concluded by stating that the real path to a happy life is not through money n power but through honesty and compassion.
The Dalai Lama was supposed to have received the award in October 2011 as part of a much anticipated visit to South Africa. The visit however had to be called off following a five-week wait for a visa to be issued.
Former recipients of the Mahatma Gandhi International Award include Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, South African leader Nelson Mandela and Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere.
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