The Dalai Lama triumphs on the Grammys at age 90: he wins the award for finest audiobook | Culture | EUROtoday

The Dalai Lama, religious chief of Tibetan Buddhism, gained his first Grammy this Sunday in one of the best audiobook class for his undertaking Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama (Meditations: Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama). Tenzin Gyatso, 90, thus marks a milestone by changing into the primary Dalai Lama to win an award from the National Recording Academy of the United States.

The highest religious authority of this faith was competing for this award, which was awarded in the course of the Grammy pre-gala, with Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Storyde Kathy Garver; Into The Uncut Grass, by Trevor Noah; Lovely One: A Memoir Ketanji, by Brown Jackson, and You Know It’s True: The Real Story Of Milli Vanilli, by Fab Morvan.

At a press convention on Monday in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian assured that the Dalai Lama “is not a purely religious figure,” however moderately “a political exile” who has been concerned for many years in “separatist activities against China under the pretext of religion.” In this context, Beijing expressed its “firm opposition” to such a awards getting used, within the phrases of the spokesperson, “as a tool for political maneuvers against China.”

His nomination adopted within the footsteps of musical artist Lama Tashi, who in 2006, together with his candidacy for Tibetan Master Chants, He turned the primary Tibetan monk to obtain a nomination for music’s most prestigious awards.

At 9 many years outdated, the Dalai Lama nonetheless lives within the metropolis of Dharamshala, in northern India, after greater than 65 years in exile as a consequence of China’s management of Tibet. The chief of the Gelug faculty of Tibetan Buddhism was proclaimed in 1940, on the age of 5, because the incarnation of the thirteenth lama and in 1989 he gained the Nobel Peace Prize.