Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama (C) shares a moment with Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi (R), at Tsuglakhang temple in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, on October 2, 2014
Dharamsala (India) (AFP) - As the Dalai Lama marked his 25th year as a Nobel laureate this week, a row over South Africa's failure to grant him a visa underscored the huge challenge facing the movement he launched more than half a century ago.
The Tibetan spiritual leader was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1989, amid international condemnation of Beijing following a deadly crackdown on peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square earlier that year.
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