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Name
The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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List Number
919
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Obverse
Dalai Lama facing
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Reverse
Lotus Flower
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Designer
Don Everhart & Joseph Menna
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Metal/Size Varieties
Bronze/1-1/2"
Commemorating the 14th Dalai Lama from Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006 in recognition of his "many enduring and outstanding contributions to peace, non-violence, human rights and religious understanding." Born in 1935, he was given full temporal duties in 1950 at the age of fifteen.
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