The fourteenth Dalai Lama receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for his nonviolent stand on Tibet; the prize fixes his standing as a world figure and carries Tibetan Buddhism's exile story to a global audience.
Tagged: Buddhist Tibetan Buddhism Vajrayana
The Event
- Date
- 1989 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Buddhist history
- Location
- Oslo; today Norway
- Traditions
- Buddhism
- Streams
- Vajrayana, Tibetan Buddhism
- Key figures
- Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Connections
- Dalai Lama flees Tibet; followed
Primary Sources
- The Nobel Committee's citation, 1989
Secondary Sources
- Powers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Snow Lion, 2nd ed. 2007)
- Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices (Cambridge, 2nd ed. 2013)
Provenance: HIST-0438; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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