Dalai Lama nominated for EU’s human rights award

8 September 08

From Sifynews

Brussels: The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader living in exile in India, has been nominated along with seven others for the European parliament’s Sakharov Award for freedom of thought and human rights this year.

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