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The first Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize awarded by Hofstra University in New York has gone to the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. The $50,000 prize honors men and women striving for interfaith dialogue. The Dalai Lama, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for peace,-has spoken across America on several occasions in recent years and could visit the Hofstra campus in the near future.
The biannual prize will be presented to the Dalai Lama in India on November 18 by a delegation including Hofstra officials, the family of Ishar Singh Bindra that established the prize at Hofstra, and former Indian prime minister I K Gujral, a member of the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize Honorary Committee.
Seventy five individuals and groups were nominated for the first prize,...