How really nice of HHDL to write and congratulate these 2 Nobel Prize winner! I too, would like to congratulate the both of you as you showed me how things will work out through perseverance, love, forgiveness, care and kindness. How true that although faced with difficulties and condemnation, nothing can change the course of your true motivation, to help others. We really do need more people like you, minus the sufferings of course, to show such excellent examples, that we can be giving, to others without anything in return. Congratulations!
Dharamsala: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday congratulated Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the award would serve as a reminder of the fundamental importance of education.
In a missive to them, he said, "I am writing to congratulate you on your being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a matter of great joy to me that the work you have both been doing in your different circumstances to support children and their education should have been acknowledged today."
To Malala he wrote, "For someone so young you showed immense courage in the stand you took to defend girls' right to education. Later, you again showed tremendous strength as you recovered from the injuries inflicted by those who violently disagreed with you. That you have continued, unbowed, to promote the basic right to education earns only admiration."
Dalai Lama congratulates Malala, Satyarthi for wining Nobel Peace Prize
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday congratulated Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation (India) and someone I consider to be a personal mentor, has been of widespread inspiration across the world, for his dedication to peaceful, non-violent change. I see the award of this prize to you, his follower, as an acknowledgement of him as well," the Buddhist monk wrote to Satyarthi.
He expressed to both awardees his feeling that "the decision to award the Peace Prize to a man and a woman, an Indian and a Pakistani, together emphasizes that only as human brothers and sisters will we create a more peaceful, happier world".
He commended them both for "working to support children who are among the most innocent and vulnerable in society, but who are also the seeds of the future, stating that the future will only be secured if we ensure that children receive a full and equal education".
"The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to both of you serves as reminder of the fundamental importance of education if we are to improve ourselves and create a better world. It is an inspiration to children, girls and boys, everywhere," the Dalai Lama, who in 1989 was given the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for Tibet, added.
