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The Templeton Prize

 

http://www.templetonprize.org

Current Winner

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader whose long-standing engagement with multiple dimensions of science and with people far beyond his own religious traditions has made him an incomparable global voice for universal ethics, nonviolence, and harmony among world religions, has won the 2012 Templeton Prize.
For decades, Tenzin Gyatso, 76, the 14th Dalai Lama - a lineage believed by followers to be the reincarnation of an ancient Buddhist leader who epitomized compassion – has vigorously focused on the connections between the investigative traditions of science and Buddhism as a way to better understand and advance what both disciplines might offer the world.
Specifically, he encourages serious scientific investigative reviews of the power of compassion and its broad potential to address the world's fundamental problems - a theme at the core of his teachings and a cornerstone of his immense popularity.
Within that search, the "big questions" he raises - such as "Can compassion be trained or taught?" – reflect the deep interest of the founder of the Templeton Prize, the late Sir John Templeton, in seeking to bring scientific methods to the study of spiritual claims and thus foster the spiritual progress that the Prize has recognized for the past 40 years.
The announcement was made this morning online at www.templetonprize.org, via email to journalists, and on Twitter via @TempletonPrize by the Templeton Prize office of the John Templeton Foundation in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
The Prize will be presented to the Dalai Lama at a ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the afternoon of Monday, May 14. A news conference with the 2012 Prize Laureate will precede the ceremony. Both events will be webcast live at www.templetonprize.org and to global media on a pool basis. Photography from the events will also be pooled.
Valued at £1.1 million (about $1.7 million or €1.3 million), the prize is the world's largest annual monetary award given to an individual and honors a living person who has made exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension.
The announcement praised the Dalai Lama for his life's work in building bridges of trust in accord with the yearnings of countless millions of people around the globe who have been drawn by the charismatic icon's appeal to compassion and understanding for all.
"With an increasing reliance on technological advances to solve the world's problems, humanity also seeks the reassurance that only a spiritual quest can answer," said Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr., president and chairman of the John Templeton Foundation and son of the late Prize founder. "The Dalai Lama offers a universal voice of compassion underpinned by a love and respect for spiritually relevant scientific research that centers on every single human being."
He also noted that the Dalai Lama's remarkable record of intellectual, moral and spiritual innovations is clearly recognized by the nine Prize judges, who represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures and religious traditions. The Prize judges evaluate - independently of each other - typically 15 to 20 nominated candidates each year and then individually submit separate ballots - from which a tally then determines the selection of each year's Laureate.
The Dalai Lama responded to the prize in the humble style that has become his signature. "When I heard today your decision to give me this quite famous award, I really felt this is another sign of recognition about my little service to humanity, mainly nonviolence and unity around different religious traditions," he said in a video available at www.templetonprize.org.
In other brief videos on the Prize website, the Dalai Lama elaborates on key issues including his call for humanity to embrace compassion as a path to peace, both personally and on a global scale. "You can develop genuine sense of concern of well-being of others, including your enemy,” he states in one video. "That kind of compassion - unbiased, unlimited - needs training, awareness."
The Right Reverend Michael Colclough, Canon Pastor at St. Paul's Cathedral, welcomed this event: "A non-violent voice of peace and reason in a calamitous world, the Dalai Lama represents core values cherished by many different faiths. The award of the Templeton Prize to the Dalai Lama under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral will be a reminder that working towards peace and harmony is a practical and spiritual challenge to all faith communities."
The Dalai Lama is no stranger to honors and accolades, with scores to his name. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy of nonviolence as the path to liberation for Tibet. He becomes the second Templeton Prize Laureate to have also received the Nobel Peace Prize; Mother Teresa received the first Templeton Prize in 1973, six years before her Nobel.
He often notes that the rigorous commitment of Buddhists to meditative investment and reflection similarly follows the strict rules of investigation, proof and evidence required of science.
Among his most successful efforts is the Mind & Life Institute, co-founded in 1987 to create collaborative research between science and Buddhism. The Institute hosts conferences on subjects such as contemplative science, destructive and healing emotions, and consciousness and death. While initially beginning as quiet academic affairs, they have evolved into enormously popular public events.
In 2005, after a series of dialogues at Stanford University among the Dalai Lama, scientists in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, and contemplative scholars, the university became the home of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. The interdisciplinary discourse recognized that engagement between cognitive sciences and Buddhist contemplative traditions could contribute to understanding of the human mind and emotion. The center now supports and conducts rigorous scientific studies of compassion and altruistic behavior.
Many of these conferences have led to popular best sellers written or co-written by the Dalai Lama, including The Art of Happiness (1998), The Universe in a Single Atom (2005), and The Dalai Lama at MIT (2006). All told, he has authored or co-authored more than 70 books.
The Dalai Lama’s love of science is also evidenced in the Science for Monks program, created in 2001 to teach science in Buddhist monastic centers of higher learning in India. The program engages Indian and Western scientists to explore connections between Tibetan Buddhist traditions and science, and teach methods of scientific inquiry in physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, biology, neuroscience, and mathematics.
This openness to new ideas and cutting edge findings has set him in the rare pantheon of internationally respected religious leaders and also has given him a stature among secular audiences unlike any other religious leader.
Indeed, in his recommendation to the Prize committee, Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote, “More than any other living human being, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has served humanity to catalyze the advancement of ‘spiritual progress’ and to help us all to cultivate a better understanding of the spiritual dimensions of human experience.”

Notes to Editors

• Further information is available at www.templetonprize.org
• Videos including the Laureate’s acceptance comments are available at www.templetonprize.org and www.youtube.com/user/TempletonPrize/
• Photos are available at www.flickr.com/photos/templetonprize
• Follow the Templeton Prize on Twitter using @TempletonPrize and the hashtags #templetonprize and #tempprize

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
Tenzin Gyatso was born on July 6, 1935 as Lhamo Dhondup in the Tibetan cultural region of Amdo, a farming village in the Qinghai Province of western China. When he was two years old, a search party set out to find the successor to the recently deceased 13th Dalai Lama. Guided by visions and omens, they came upon the home of the toddler, who was selected as the 14th Dalai Lama and taken to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.
At age six he began his monastic education within the walls of the Norbulingka Palace near Lhasa, studying logic, Tibetan art and culture, Buddhist philosophy, Sanskrit and medicine. A precocious child surrounded by the trappings of a king, he roamed the palace in search of diversions. Among those was a telescope that allowed him to peer into the night sky and the watch belonging to the 13th Dalai Lama that he repeatedly deconstructed and rebuilt for amusement.
In 1950, at age 15, he was officially installed as the political leader of Tibet. The subsequent involvement of the Chinese government in Tibet soon prompted his departure from Tibet. In 1951 he returned to Lhasa for negotiations with the Chinese government and, in 1954, traveled to Beijing for peace talks with Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Chou En-Lai, and others.
 In 1959, in response to increasing tensions from an uprising within the region against Chinese control, at just 23 years old, he and a small entourage departed from Tibet to India, eventually settling in Dharamsala which remains his home in exile.
In 1987, he offered a Five Point Peace Plan for Tibet that includes making the region a non-armed enclave and an environmental sanctuary with China responsible for defense and foreign policy, a proposal as yet unrecognized by Beijing.
In 2011, he relinquished his political responsibility over Tibet in favor of a proposed constitutional government, albeit in exile, removing the Dalai Lama as head of state and replacing him with an elected leader. This ended the tradition begun by the 5th Dalai Lama in 1642 of the Dalai Lamas holding dual responsibility of spiritual and temporal powers.

The Templeton Prize
The Templeton Prize each year honors a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works.
Established in 1972 by the late global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, the Prize is a cornerstone of the John Templeton Foundation’s international efforts to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality.
The monetary value of the prize is set always to exceed the Nobel Prizes to underscore Templeton's belief that benefits from discoveries that illuminate spiritual questions can be quantifiably more vast than those from other worthy human endeavors.

Downloads/
Links/Media

PDFs

• Statement by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Fact Sheet – The 14th Dalai Lama
• Books by the 14th Dalai Lama
• Statement by Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr.: 40 Years of Spiritual Progress & the 2012 Templeton Prize Laureate

Videos

• His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on accepting the 2012 Templeton Prize
• Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr.: 40 Years of Spiritual Progress & the 2012 Templeton Prize Laureate

• Does having a sense of purpose make achieving success more likely?
  "You have to make effort. Your goal also must be realistic… then you can achieve."
• Spiritual laws and action
  "You must work, you must create karma, positive karma means positive action."
• Can compassion be trained or taught?
  "Through training, through awareness… you can develop genuine sense of concern of well-being of others, including your enemy."
• Personal responsibility for oneself with others
  "The basis of genuine friendship is trust. Trust depends on openness. So, through these things, we can change."

Previous
Prize
Winners

• Martin J. Rees(2011)
• Francisco J. Ayala(2010)
• Bernard d’Espagnat(2009)
• Michael Heller(2008)
• Charles Taylor(2007)
• John D. Barrow(2006)
• Charles H. Townes(2005)
• George F. R. Ellis(2004)
• Holmes Rolston III(2003)
• John C. Polkinghorne(2002)
• Arthur Peacocke(2001)
• Freeman J. Dyson(2000)
• Ian Graeme Barbour(1999)
• Sigmund Sternberg(1998)
• Pandurang Shastri Athavale(1997)
• William R. "Bill" Bright(1996)
• Paul Davies(1995)
• Michael Novak(1994)
• Charles W. Colson(1993)
• Kyung-Chik Han(1992)
• Lord Jakobovits(1991)
• Baba Amte(1990 ; awarded jointly)
• L. Charles Birch(1990 ; awarded jointly)
• Lord MacLeod(1989 ; awarded jointly)
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker(1989 ; awarded jointly)
• Inamullah Khan(1988)
• Stanley L. Jaki(1987)
• James McCord(1986)
• Alister Hardy(1985)
• Michael Bourdeaux(1984)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn(1983)
• Billy Graham(1982)
• Cicely Saunders(1981)
• Ralph Wendell Burhoe(1980)
• Nikkyo Niwano(1979)
• Thomas F. Torrance(1978)
• Chiara Lubich(1977)
• Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens(1976)
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan(1975)
• Brother Roger(1974)
• Mother Teresa(1973)

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El Dalai Lama Gana El Premio Templeton 2012

El Dalai Lama Gana El Premio Templeton 2012

 

 

West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos - El Dalai Lama, el líder espiritual budista tibetano quien ha estado comprometido largamente con múltiples dimensiones de la ciencia y con personas que están mucho más lejos de sus propias tradiciones religiosas, lo que lo ha hecho una voz mundial incomparable para la ética universal, la no-violencia, y la armonía entre las religiones mundiales, ha ganado el Premio Templeton de 2012.

Por décadas, Tenzin Gyatso, de 76 años, el 14º Dalai Lama –un linaje que los seguidores creen que es la reencarnación de un antiguo líder budista que personificaría la compasión- se ha centrado con vigor en las conexiones entre las tradiciones de investigación de la ciencia y el budismo como un modo de entender mejor y avanzar en lo que ambas disciplinas pueden ofrecerle al mundo.

 

Específicamente, él anima serios estudios científicos de investigación sobre el poder de la compasión y su amplio potencial de tratar los problemas fundamentales del mundo, un tema que está en el corazón de sus enseñanzas y es la piedra angular de su inmensa popularidad.

 

Dentro de esta búsqueda, las “grandes cuestiones” que él plantea, tales como ¿Puede la compasión ser entrenada o enseñada?, reflejan el profundo interés del fundador del Premio Templeton, el difunto Sir John Templeton, en buscar brindar métodos científicos a las demandas espirituales y así fomentar el progreso espiritual que el Premio ha reconocido por los últimos cuarenta años.

El anuncio fue hecho esta mañana en Internet en www.tempeltonprize.org. A través de mail a los periodistas y en twitter via @templetonprize por la oficina del Premio Templeton de la Fundación John Templeton en  West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. 

El Premio será entregado al Dalai Lama en una ceremonia en la Catedral de San Pablo en Londres, en la tarde del lunes 14 de mayo. Será precedido por una conferencia de prensa con el laureado de 2012.

Ambos eventos serán trasmitidos en vivo en www.empletonprize.org y a los medios globales. Las fotografías de los eventos también podrán ser reproducidas.

 

Valuado en 1.1 millón de libras, el premio es el más grande del mundo del punto de vista monetario otorgado a un individuo y  honra a una persona viva que haya hecho contribuciones excepcionales para afirmar la dimensión de la vida espiritual.  

El anuncio elogia al Dalai Lama por su trabajo de toda la vida construyendo puentes de confianza de acuerdo con los anhelos de millones de personas alrededor del mundo quienes han estado atraidas por el carismático llamado a la compassion y al entendimiento entre todos.

 

 “Con una creciente confianza en los avances tecnológicos para resolver los problemas del mundo, la humanidad también busca la seguridad que solo una búsqueda espiritual puede responder”, dijo el Dr.John M.Templeton Jr., presidente y director de la Fundación John Templeton e hijo del fallecido fundador del premio. “El Dalai Lama ofrece una voz universal de compasión apuntalada por amor y respeto a la investigación científica espiritualmente relevante, que se centra sobre cada ser humano individual”.

 

Él también anotó que el remarcable registro del Dalai Lama en innovaciones intelectuales, morales y espirituales está claramente reconocido por los nueve jueces del premio, quienes representan una amplia gama de disciplinas, culturas y tradiciones religiosas. Los jueces del premio evalúan independientemente a unos 15 o 20 candidatos cada año y luego emitien los votos separadamente, determinando la coincidencia de los mismos, la elección del laureado de cada año.

El Dalai Lama respondió al premio en el estilo humilde que se ha convertido en su sello, “cuando me enteré hoy de su decision de darme este famoso premio, realmente sentí que es otra señal de reconocimiento a mi pequeño servicio a la humanidad, principalmente a la no-violencia y a la unidad alrededor de las diferentes tradiciones religiosas” dijo en un video disponible en www.templetonprize.org.

 

En otros breves videos sobre el premio en el sitio web, el Dalai Lama explica temas claves, incluyendo su llamado para que la humanidad abrace la compasión como un camino para la paz, tanto personalmente como a escala global. “Tú puedes desarrollar un sentido genuino de preocupación por el bienestar de los otros, incluyendo tu enemigo” afirmó en un video. “Esa clase de compasión –neutral e ilimitada- necesita entrenamiento, conciencia¨.

 

El Reverendo Michael Colclough, pastor de la Catedral de St.Paul, dio la bienvenida al evento: “Una voz de no-violencia, de paz y de razón en un mundo calamitoso, el Dalai Lama representa los valores centrales acariciados por muchas creencias diferentes. La entrega del premio Templeton al Dalai Lama bajo el domo de la Catedral de St.Paul será un recordatorio de que trabajar por la paz y la armonía es un desafío práctiico y espiritual para todas las comunidades de fe”.

El Dalai Lama no es extraño a estos honores y galardones, con varios a su nombre. En 1989, fue galardonado con el Nobel de la Paz por su defensa de la no-violencia como camino de paz para la liberación del Tíbet. Él se convierte en el segundo galardonado con el Templeton que también ha recibido el Nobel; la Madre Teresa recibió primero el premio Templeton, en 1973, seis años antes de su Nobel.

Conjuntamente con sus esfuerzos para conseguir la paz para Tíbet, los extensos viajes del Dalai Lama, han promovido un entendimiento multi cultural con otras religiones y con otras disciplinas tan variadas como la astrofísica, la mecánica cuántica, la neurobiología y la ciencia del comportamiento.

A menudo indica que el riguroso compromiso de los budistas en la inversion meditativa y la reflexión, sigue en modo similar, las estrictas reglas de la investigación, las pruebas y la evidencia requeridas por la ciencia.

Entre sus más recientes esfuerzos está el Instituto Mind and Life co-fundado en 1987 para crear una investigación en colaboración entre la ciencia y el budismo. El Instituto es la sede de conferencias en temas tales como la ciencia contemplativa, emociones destructivas y positivas, y la conciencia y la muerte. Lo que comenzó como tranquilos temas académicos, ha evolucionado en eventos públicos de enorme popularidad. 

En 2005, después de una serie de diálogos en la Universidad de Stanford entre el Dalai Lama, científicos en los campos de la neurociencia, la psicología, la medicina y eruditos contemplativos, la Universidad se convirtió en el sede del Centro para la Investigación y Educación en Compasión y Altruísmo. El discurso interdisciplinario reconoció que el compromiso entre las ciencias cognitivas y las tradiciones contemplativas budistas podría contribuir al entendimiento de la mente humana y las emociones. El centro ahora apoya y conduce rigurosos estudios científicos de comportamiento compasivo y altruísta. 

Muchas de estas conferencias han conducido a  populares best sellers escritos o co-escritos por el Dalai Lama, entre ellos El Arte de la Felicidad (1998), El Universo en un Solo Átomo (2005), y El Dalai Lama en el MIT* (2006). En total, él ha escrito o co-escrito más de 70 libros.-

 

*MIT: Instituto Tecnológico de Massachussets 

 

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Premios Nobel: Jintao Debe Abrir El Diálogo Con El Tíbet

Premios Nobel: Jintao Debe Abrir El Diálogo Con El Tíbet

 

Nobel Women’s Iniciative

3 de abril de 2012

 

Un grupo de 12 laureados con el Premio Nobel de la Paz –incluidos el Arzobispo Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Lech Walesa, Laymah Gbowee y Shirin Ebadi- han publicado hoy una carta abierta al presidente chino Hu Jintao. La carta es una respuesta a la reciente ola de auto-inmolaciones dentro de la comunidad tibetana e insta a Jintao a resolver el actual conflicto.

 

Solo en el pasado año, más de treinta tibetanos, entre ellas 5 mujeres, han perdido sus vidas por auto-inmolación, en protesta pacífica contra el gobierno chino de Tíbet. El incidente más reciente ocurrió durante la visita oficial del presidente Jintao a India, hogar de miles de tibetanos que viven en el exilio incluyendo a Su Santidad el Dalai Lama.

 

En el comunicado, los Premios Nobel de la Paz, pidieron al líder chino abrir un “diálogo significativo” con Su Santidad el Dalai Lama y otros líderes tibetanos, y “respetar la dignidad del pueblo tibetano” encontrando una solución no violenta al conflicto. China ha gobernado Tíbet por más de seis décadas e impuesto estrictas sanciones sobre la práctica de la religión y la cultura en Tíbet.

 

Como resultado de las recientes auto-inmolaciones y crecientes tensiones, el gobierno chino ha aumentado la militarización en Tíbet y restringido la ya limitada libertad religiosa de los monjes budistas.

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El texto de la carta a continuación.

 

 

Presidente Hu Jintao,
República Popular de China
Bejiing, China

 

Estimado Sr.Presidente:

 

El pueblo del Tíbet necesita ser oído. Ellos han buscado largamente una autonomía genuina, ellos han elegido la negociación y la ayuda amistosa como medios para alcanzarlo. Ahora ellos se vuelcan a la protesta. La comunidad internacional está preocupada por las drásticas expresiones de resentimiento del pueblo del Tíbet a través de la auto-inmolación. El gobierno chino debería oír sus voces, entender sus reclamos y encontrar una solución no-violenta.

 

Esa solución en ofrecida por nuestro amigo y hermano Su Santidad el Dalai Lama, quien nunca ha buscado el separatismo, y ha elegido siempre una vía pacífica. Nosotros instamos firmemente al gobierno chino a aprovechar la oportunidad que él ofrece para un diálogo significativo. Una vez formado, este canal debería permanecer abierto, activo y productivo. Se deberían  tratar temas que están en el corazón de la actual tensión, respetando la dignidad del pueblo tibetano y la integridad de China.

 

Específicamente, nosotros estamos pidiendo respetuosamente al gobierno chino que libere a todos aquellos que han sido arbitrariamente detenidos; cese la intimidación, el hostigamiento y la detención de los manifestantes pacíficos; permita el acceso sin restricciones de los periodistas, diplomáticos extranjeros y organizaciones internacionales al Tíbet, y respete las libertades religiosas.

 

Es especialmente importante entender que la comunidad internacional estará segura si su gobierno permitiera el acceso completo a Tíbet, a miembros de la prensa e investigadores de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas. Sin ese acceso, el progreso es improbable y una oportunidad puede perderse.

 

Atentamente,

 

Desmond Tutu
Jody Williams
Leymah Gbowee
Lech Walesa
Shirin Ebadi
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
José Ramos Horta
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Jon Hume
Betty Williams
Carlos Belo

 

 

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