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43 Templeton Prize Laureate to be announced in April
Event:
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Announcement of Templeton Prize
April 2013 (exact date to be determined)
Online at www.templetonprize.org, via email to journalists, and on Twitter via @TempletonPrize
The winner of the 2013 Templeton Prize will be announced in April (exact date to be determined) online at
www.templetonprize.org, via email to journalists, and on Twitter via @TempletonPrize.
Valued at £1.1 million (about $1.7 million or €1.3 million), the Templeton Prize has been the world's largest
annual monetary award given to an individual for the past 40 years.
The Prize each year honors a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual
dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works.
Established in 1972 by the late global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, the Prize is a cornerstone
of the John Templeton Foundation’s international efforts to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries
relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality.
The Prize will be awarded at a ceremony in London in late May. Video highlights of the ceremony will be
available at www.templetonprize.org a few hours following the event.
The 2013 Prize laureate will join a distinguished group of 42 former recipients. Last year’s Templeton Prize
laureate was the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, in recognition of his long-standing
engagement with multiple dimensions of science and with people far beyond his own religious traditions which
has made him an incomparable global voice for universal ethics, nonviolence, and harmony among world
religions.
Contact: Donald Lehr – The Nolan/Lehr Group, +1.212.967.8200, [email protected]