To mark his 90th Birthday and the beginning of the ‘Year of Compassion’ declared to express a sense of universal gratitude, Rigpa offers a tribute to His Holiness.

In July 2006 in Lerab Ling, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche spoke about the vision and legacy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He concluded by highlighting five main challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century.

In March, 2025 at the conclusion of the annual Great Prayer Festival (Monlam Chenmo), His Holiness wrote this moving prayer for peace.

Dr Kapila Vatsyayan (1928 – 2020) was a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture, and art history, and served as a member of parliament in India. Here she pays a tribute to His Holiness, telling the story of their work together, and sharing one of his teachings on emptiness.

The Mind and Life conferences with the Dalai Lama have been crucially important encounters between science and Buddhism. This testimony was given by their co-founder, Chilean neuroscientist Francisco Varela.

A unique homage to His Holiness the Dalai Lama auspiciously written by Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche at the request of the Rigpa Sangha of Lerab Ling in 2006.

Over the years, Rigpa has had the honour of hosting and inviting His Holiness the Dalai Lama to teach and give empowerments on a number of occasions. To mark this special birthday, we look back on some of those key moments and share some memorable images.

On the occasion of the consecration of the temple at Rigpa’s retreat centre Lerab Ling, in southern France the Dalai Lama gave the following address.

This prayer for the long life of His Holiness was written by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö while he was in Lhasa in the 1950s, and there are many who consider it to be a kind of prophecy predicting His Holiness’s life.