Ramon Magsaysay Award for Dalai Lama

• Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation President and Foundation Trustee presented the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award to the Dalai Lama after 64 years.

• This was the first international award given to the Dalai Lama by the Foundation in August 1959.

• In addition, the Dalai Lama signed a portrait of himself for the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in the Philippines.

• This was the first international award given to the Dalai Lama for community leadership in recognition of the valiant struggle of the Tibetan community in defense of the sacred Dharma.

• The Dalai Lama is the title given to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso.