Name

   The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

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List Number

   918

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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/3"

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.