Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
nonprofit organization
The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a nonprofit organization established with the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the 14th Dalai Lama in 1989. According to its website, "the Foundation brings together men and women of different faiths, professions and nationalities, through a range of initiatives and mutually sustaining collaborations."
As of February 2025, Rajiv Mehrotra is a Trustee/Secretary of the Foundation. The Foundation functions with financial transparency and its Balance Sheets and Statutory Disclosures are available on the official website.
Purpose
The Dalai Lama laid out the purpose of the foundation as:
This foundation will implement projects according to Tibetan Buddhist principles to benefit people everywhere, focusing especially on assisting non-violent methods, on improving communication between religion and science, on securing human rights and democratic freedoms, and conserving and restoring our precious Mother Earth.
Programs
Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) is an initiative of the Foundation. The program focuses on women's empowerment in the realm of diplomacy. Men and women receive training through seminars and a summer program. The initiative partners with institutions of higher education such as the Shri Ram College of Commerce to conduct these trainings. WISCOMP also conducts initiatives for peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as between India and Pakistan.
Other programs include the production of books and films and events such as pilgrimages and film festivals.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama” is nonprofit organization. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Foundation, Universal and Responsibility, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “nonprofit organization” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3075714. VIAF identifies the subject as 148712132. The Library of Congress control number is no98132241. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 2025.
Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama primary sources, Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama archive and Foundation research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.