How to Use Dalai Lama in a Sentence

Dalai Lama

noun
  • But time for both the Dalai Lama and his people is starting to run out.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2024
  • The Dalai Lama turned 90 in July.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The video shows the boy approaching the Dalai Lama and asking him for a hug.
    — Joseph Wilkinson New York Daily News (tns), al, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The search for him began soon after the 13th Dalai Lama died.
    — Brooke Schedneck, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Tait's focus on kindness was enough to convince the Dalai Lama to visit.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Harari might be, after the Dalai Lama, the figure of global renown who is least online.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Dalai Lama cut a lock of Dorje's hair in a ceremony.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama says there are two ways to reach contentment.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The 14th Dalai Lama recently turned 90.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • During the visit, the Dalai Lama blessed a 3-foot-tall Bodhi tree for the campus.
    — Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The Dalai Lama's pick was taken away by Chinese authorities and has not been seen since.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2024
  • On each floor of her house, there is a different photograph of Goldberg with the Dalai Lama.
    — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet, held in high regard around the globe.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024
  • The university’s granting of an honorary degree to the Dalai Lama the year before.
    — Sarah McLaughlin, Twin Cities, 4 June 2025
  • Another way of putting this is that the material rewards for bending the truth about old art could have made the Dalai Lama a con man.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Mother Theresa, the Dalai Lama and Malala Yousafzai are also all past winners.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • One of these experiences was meeting the Dalai Lama and attending one of his public teachings.
    — Shani Dhanda, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In 1996, Martin Scorsese was shopping a movie about the Dalai Lama.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
  • During his trip to Tibet, Xi did not name the Dalai Lama in comments reported by state media.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Here, three train enthusiasts describe memorable rides, including tales of the Dalai Lama and the world’s best chai.
    — Nina Molina, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Much of this foreign aid rests on goodwill that the Dalai Lama has personally cultivated in capitals around the world.
    — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Competing against her in the same category is the Dalai Lama, another first-time nominee.
    — Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Competing against her in the same category is the Dalai Lama, another first-time nominee.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And the one where Joker is named the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama will probably be ignored.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the Dalai Lama’s supporters claim his actions in the video have been misinterpreted under a Western lens.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • President Jimmy Carter always loved the custard; the Dalai Lama even sampled the potlikker.
    — Carolanne Griffith Roberts, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Today, the Tibetan government in exile is a vibrant democracy that will outlive this Dalai Lama.
    — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Though Tibetans across the globe were celebrating the victory, the Dalai Lama was, as ever, more measured and far-sighted.
    — Pico Iyer, Time, 5 July 2025
  • Several other guests to be announced with take part in the panel discussion with Gere, who has known the Dalai Lama for more than 40 years.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025

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