Dalai Lama donated $ 1.7 million for charity

Dalai Lama and Sir John M Templeton award ceremony

GNO - Dalai Lama after receiving the 2012 Templeton prize has announced it will donate prize money of £ 1.1 million (USD 1.7 million) for charity. Speaking before more than 2,000 people inside the church Saint Paul in London (UK), the Dalai Lama said he would extract most of the prize money to help malnourished children in India.
Specifically, he will contribute $ 1.5 million awards for Save the Children India, a leading organization in the fight against malnutrition - one of the biggest causes of causing the death of children worldwide.
"real hope of we are in the younger generation. If we know the proper education, the young generation will change the world ", the Dalai Lama said.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama also donated $ 200,000 to the Institute of Spirituality and Life (Mind and Life Institute ), an organization promoting close ties between science and spirituality. The rest of the awards will fund the scientific and educational activities for Tibetan monks.
Save the Children said they were honored to receive the "gift full of humanitarian generosity" of the Dalai Lama and this gift will be used to save lives, "the children most vulnerable" of the world.
It is known that the Templeton Prize, the largest monetary award annually to an individual for contributions to encourage scientific research and the harmony between religions.
"The award is a sign of recognition for the job because my tiny human beings, mostly of nonviolence and unity between the religious tradition, "La Dalai Lama has said they are awarded.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was awarded his prize from John M. Templeton, President of the John Templeton has offices in Pennsylvania.
"Dalai Lama brought a common voice on compassion strengthened by the love and respect for scientific research related areas relating to spirituality focuses on each individual human being, "he said when announcing the John Templeton Prize.
The Tibetan spiritual leader was the second won the Templeton. Mother Teresa won the first Templeton in 1973.
Founded in 1972, the prize is the cornerstone of international efforts of the John Templeton Foundation as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery related to the big questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.( TAM THANH ).MHDT.17/5/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).