The Dalai Lama Center

Educating the heart. Inspiring the mind.

The Dalai Lama Center

Educating the heart. Inspiring the mind.

The Dalai Lama Center is devoted to inspiring and empowering youth through social and emotional learning, providing them with the tools to nurture compassion, build resilience and cultivate inner peace – laying the foundation for a more harmonious and peaceful world.

Our Mission

Changing Young Lives

The Dalai Lama Center supports the social and emotional development of individuals, especially young people, with evidence-based teaching and tools.

We are dedicated to scaling and fostering conditions for a more compassionate and peaceful future, based on the belief that educating the mind should be combined with educating the heart.

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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

- His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Empower your classroom

Our programs and resources help create learning environments and supports that enablepositive human qualities such as compassion and caring in children and youth.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

- His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Friends of the dalai lama Center

His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently hosted the Martin Luther King III family in Dharamshala. The Kings and the Dalai Lama share a strong belief in the remarkable powers of compassion, love and community.

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WHO WE ARE

The Dalai Lama Center was founded and flourishes under the guidance of a remarkable team of leaders and visionaries.

Meet Our Founders
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Mairead Maguire and Shirin Ebadi
Jimmy Carter
Desmond Tutu (In Memoriam)
Desmond Tutu

Our Advisory Board

The Dalai Lama Center is honored to have the guidance of an esteemed international advisory board, chaired by the Dalai Lama, which includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Desmond Tutu (In Memoriam), Betty Williams, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, and Shirin Ebadi, as well as world leaders such as Jimmy Carter, Sakyong Mipham, and Tendzin Choegyal.

Our Team Leadership