His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, His Holiness has developed his philosophy of peace from a great reverence for all things living and upon the concept of universal responsibility embracing all mankind as well as nature. Tibetans normally refer to His Holiness as Kundun, meaning The Presence.