HHDL attending Mass at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria, on May 27th. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

HHDL speaking at the European Solidarity Rally for Tibet at the Vienna Heldenplatz in Vienna, Austria, on May 26. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

HHDL greeting well-wishers waiting outside the Salzburg Arena before his talk in Salzburg, Austria, on May 21st. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

Dr. John M. Templeton Jr. presents the 2012 Templeton Prize to HHDL at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on May 14th. Photo/Clifford Shirley

HHDL jokes with members of the voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a at Kualoa Regional Park on Oahu, Hawaii, on April 16, 2012. His Holiness participated in a Earth Blessing and consecrated the Hōkūle‘a before its upcoming World Wide Voyage. Photo/Eyes of the Island Photography

HHDL during his visit to Rewalsar Sahib, a Sikh shrine in Tso Pema (Rewalsar), HP, India on April 3rd, 2012. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

HHDL during the Jataka Tales teaching held at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, India, on March 8th. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

Traditional Tibetan New Year prayers with HHDL on the Main Tibetan Temple rooftop in Dharamsala, India, on Feb 22. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah Tutu with HHDL during their visit to Dharamsala, India, on February 10th. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

HHDL placing vases around the completed Kalachakra Sand Mandala in Bodh Gaya, India, on January 6, 2012. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

In the early 1960s HHDL occasionally used to meet young Tibetan children at his old residence in Dharamsala, India Photo/OHHDL Archive

HHDL meeting with his old friend former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel in Prague on December 10th. Photo/Forum2000/Ondřej Besperát

HHDL at the opening of the new hostel for disadvantaged children near Dharamsala, India, on November 19th, 2011. The hostel, sponsored by The Dalai Lama Trust, is run by Tong-Len Charitable Trust Center which helps displaced communities in North India. Photo/Abhishek Madhukar

HHDL comforts a young boy who lost his parents to the tsunami last March in Ishinomaki, Japan, on November 5th. His Holiness traveled to Ishinomaki to meet with the survivors from the area most devastated by the tsunami. Photo/Kimimasa Mayama

HHDL reciting prayers by torchlight in the dimly lit Hall of Lamps at Okunoin, in Koyasan, Japan on November 1. Okunion is the site of the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, and considered one the the most sacred sites in Koyasan, western Japan. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

HHDL is welcomed on his arrival in Osaka on October 29th, at the start of a ten day visit to Japan. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

HHDL joins in prayers in Dharamsala on October 19 for those who died or were injured in recent protests in Tibet. The prayers were held at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, India. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

Traditional Tibetan greeting for HHDL by young well-wishers on his arrival at Mount Saléve, France on August 12th. His Holiness came to consecrate the newly constructed Tibetan Buddhist centre Shedrub Choekhorling. Photo/Igor Yanchaglov

His Holiness the Dalai Lama meets with President Barack Obama in the Map Room of the White House on July 16, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

HHDL presents Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick with a "souvenir", a Buddha statue, in Washington DC on July 14th. Cardinal McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington DC, came to greet HHDL during the second day of the Kalachakra Empowerment being held at the Verizon Center in Washington DC. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL