The Milan city council on 20 October 2016 bestowed honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama. However, China has strongly opposed another award given to him.
●    Lamberto Bertole, Chairman of the Council of Milan, honoured the Dalai Lama with the Milan Honorary Citizenship award at a ceremony held at the Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan, Italy.
●    The 14th Dalai Lama is the current Dalai Lama.
●    Dalai Lamas are important monks of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism, which is nominally headed by the Ganden Tripas.
●    His enthronement ceremony as the Dalai Lama was held in Lhasa on 22 February 1940.
●    He eventually assumed full temporal duties on 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, after China's invasion of Tibet.
●    During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama fled to India, where he currently lives as a refugee.
●    The 14th Dalai Lama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.


 

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