London: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on May 14 received the prestigious £1.1 million Templeton Prize and announced that most of the prize money will go to “Save the Children” fund in India.
Speaking at the St. Paul’s Cathedral where he received the prize, 76-year-old Dalai Lama said that most of the prize money would go to the “Save the Children” fund in India, with smaller bequests to a science and religion group, which is studying the effects of Buddhist practice and to a project to train Buddhist monks as scientists.
About £900,000 will go to “Save the Children,” an Indian NGO that works for child rights, with £125,000 set aside for “The Minds and Life Institute,” a US-based non-profit organization. Money will also go towards a fund to educate Tibetan monks about science.
