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His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is recognized by people everywhere as an embodiment of the highest human aspirations the ending of suffering and the achievement of happiness for all sentient beings. To spread this enduring human message, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has tirelessly travelled to over 62 countries, meeting the powerful and the mighty, the poor and the disenfranchised, with the same warmth and affection. Though the Dalai Lama has now turned 78, these messages of warm and spontaneous greetings from leaders, celebrities and cultural figures around the world who write of the ways in which their lives have been touched and transformed by their contact with His Holiness were sent on the occasion of his platinum birthday. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is, in the words of Swami Chidananda Saraswati,one of the most enlightened people to have ever graced the planet. The light that his very being brings to the world to those near and those far is unsurpassed. He truly stands as a lighthouse, showing the world the way toward true peace compassion and love'.