Tenzin Gyatso

The fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. He is the political and spiritual leader of Tibetans worldwide, although he is not the head of any school, but he exerts a powerful influence over the the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism in which he was trained. He is influential as aNobel Peace Prize laureate, the world's most well-known Buddhist monk, and leader of the Tibetan Administrationgovernment-in-exile in Dharamsala, India.

Thich Nhat Hanh

An expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. Commonly referred to as Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese: Thích Nhất Hạnh), the title Thích is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan.