Light of Truth Award
The Light of Truth Award is a prize given by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), which has been campaigning for the rights of the people of Tibetan origin since the violent occupation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China in 1950.
Award
The price is for a simple Tibetan butter lamp. It symbolizes an extraordinary light that each of the award winners has carried to Tibet. The ICT donates the Light of Truth Award to people and organizations who have made significant contributions to public reassessment and the fight for human rights and democratic freedoms of the Tibetan people. The Light of Truth Award is the most honorable prize of the Tibetan exile movement and is presented annually by the Dalai Lama at the request of the ICT .
Award winners (selection)
- 1995: Abraham Michael Rosenthal
- 1996: Richard Gere , Lavinia Currier and Michael Currier
- 1997: Charlie Rose and Claiborne Pell
- 1998: Martin Scorsese and Melissa Mathison
- 1999: Hugh Edward Richardson and Danielle Mitterrand
- 2000: Richard C. Blum
- 2001: The people of India , received by Ramaswamy Venkataraman
- 2002: Heinrich Harrer and Petra Kelly
- 2003: Benjamin A. Gilman , Michele Bohana and Robert Thurman
- 2004: Otto Graf Lambsdorff , Irmtraut Wäger and Václav Havel
- 2005: Elie Wiesel , Carl Gershman and Lowell Thomas junior
- 2006: Hergé Foundation and Desmond Tutu
- 2009: Julia Taft and Wang Lixiong
- 2011: George Patterson
- 2013: Robert Ford , International Commission of Jurists , Sigrid Joss-Arnd , Christian Schwarz-Schilling , Theo van Boven
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lamp for the Path Teachings in Friborg ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dalai Lama website, April 14, 2013
Web links
Commons : Light of Truth Award - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Description of the Light of Truth Award (English)
- International Campaign for Tibet eV (German)