The Year of Compassion: Dalai Lama’s 90th Birthday an Expanded Look

The Year of Compassion represents a major international initiative launched by the Central Tibetan Administration to honor the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday year. The grand celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, which falls on 6th July 2025 according to the Western calendar, will be the launch of the Year of Compassion. Here’s a comprehensive overview:

Duration and Scope

The Central Tibetan Administration officially organized a year-long celebration from July 2025 to July 2026, declaring it the Year of Compassion Dalai Lama. The Central Tibetan Administration declared July 2025-2026 as “Year of Compassion” to commemorate the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday and launched a series of events and campaigns across the free world for this purpose Tibet.

The Four Commitments

During the launch, Sikyong Penpa Tsering explained that the Dalai Lama particularly taught about his four commitments: promoting human values, religious harmony, ancient Indian wisdom, and preserving Tibetan culture, and consequently they dedicated the twelve months as a Year of Compassion, calling on friends and supporters to join in observing it CNN.

Global Campaigns

Compassion Rising World Tour

The Compassion Rising World Tour is a global initiative led by the International Campaign for Tibet, created to honor the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday and support the Central Tibetan Administration’s Year of Compassion, with over 50 events held from Washington to The Hague, Dharamsala to Los Angeles NPR.

The tour unites individuals and communities across cultures and continents through in-person and virtual events, concerts, community challenges, live-streamed gatherings, and real-world acts of compassion, with a dynamic digital platform at www.CompassionRising.com serving as the movement’s anchor Radio Free Asia.

Brussels Public Transportation Campaign

In Brussels, the Office of Tibet launched a unique city-wide campaign featuring over 110 posters with quotes from the Dalai Lama placed in metro stations, trams, and buses across the Brussels-Capital Region, with displays running until July 21, 2025 Tibet.

Local Celebrations

At the Tenzingang Tibetan Settlement in Arunachal Pradesh, the Tibetan Settlement Office organized an exhibition on the life and biography of the Dalai Lama at the Community Hall, displaying eighty-two framed banners for the general public Tibet.

U.S. Congressional Recognition

U.S. Representatives Michael McCaul and Jim McGovern introduced a bipartisan resolution designating July 6, 2025, as “A Day of Compassion” in honor of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday Euronews. The US Senate unanimously approved the resolution on July 14, which recognizes July 6, 2025, as a Day of Compassion, affirms the Tibetan people’s human rights and fundamental freedoms, and reiterates that any attempt by China to interfere in the recognition of a 15th Dalai Lama violates the religious freedom of Tibetan Buddhists Tibet.

Community Participation

As Namgyal Choedup, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet, stated, they designated the entire year as the “Year of Compassion” to recognize not only the Dalai Lama’s inspiration for the Tibetan people’s peaceful struggle but also his message of hope, interreligious harmony, and compassion for all beings Dalai Lama.

The Year of Compassion thus represents a coordinated global effort involving government recognition, cultural exhibitions, public awareness campaigns, and grassroots community engagement to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s legacy and promote his message of universal compassion.