Video: Dalai Lama: money and power do not bring happiness If such things happen in some other developing countries - or different countries ... but in England... I immediately sent a letter to the Prime Minister expressing my sadness and my condolences. The Dalai Lama was speaking before he was due to receive the £1.1 million 2012 Templeton Prize in London for his engagement with science and people beyond his religious traditions. He announced he was donating over £900,000 of the prize money to Save the Children's work with malnourished children in India. He will donate £124,500 to the Mind and Life Institute, an organisation promoting collaboration between science and spirituality. The remaining the prize money will be used for funding science education for student monks in Tibetan monastic universities. Justin Forsyth, chief executive of Save the Children, said: "Save the Children is absolutely delighted. It is a huge honour to receive this humanitarian gift from the Dalai Lama.