Overview
- The Recording Academy honored Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Best Audiobook during the Grammys’ pre-telecast.
- The award marks the 14th Dalai Lama’s first Grammy at age 90.
- In a statement on his website, he said he accepted the recognition with gratitude and humility and saw it as acknowledgment of shared universal responsibility.
- China’s foreign ministry condemned the decision as anti-China political manipulation and portrayed him as an exiled political figure engaged in separatism.
- The current coverage reports no further diplomatic measures beyond the public statements from both sides.