Light of Truth Award
Robert Ford with the Dalai Lama
Date2013
Presented byInternational Campaign for Tibet, 14th Dalai Lama
Websitewww.savetibet.fr

The Light of Truth Award is a human rights award which is presented nearly annually by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), an NGO aiming for the promotion of democracy and human rights for the Tibetan people. The award is presented since 1995 by the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, to the recipients personally.

The prize consists of a humble Tibetan butter lamp that serves as a symbol of the extraordinary light that every recipient brought to Tibet. In 2005 the ICT received an award itself, the Geuzenpenning, a human rights award from the Netherlands.

The Light of Truth Award is granted to persons and organizations that have publicly contributed substantially to the rise of and battle for human rights and democratic freedoms of the Tibetan people. In 2001, the award was presented to the entire people of India, and accepted for them by president R. Venkataraman.

Recipients

References

  1. ↑ Lamp for the Path Teachings in Fribourg Archived 2013-06-25 at the Wayback Machine, Dalai Lama website, 14 April 2013
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