{"id":76197,"date":"2026-02-02T15:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/02\/grammys-2026-dalai-lama-first-grammy-award-win"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:15:59","slug":"dalai-lama-expresses-gratitude-and-humility-at-first-grammy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76197","title":{"rendered":"Beijing condemns Dalai Lama\u2019s Grammy win as \u2018anti-China political manipulation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buddhist spiritual leader wins best audiobook and says he sees win \u2018as a recognition of our shared universal responsibility\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/feb\/01\/grammy-awards-bad-bunny-kendrick-lamar-anti-ice\">Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar win big in Grammys ceremony filled with anti-ICE sentiment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/dalailama\">Dalai Lama<\/a> has taken home his first Grammy award, prompting criticism from China.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, was announced as the winner for the narration and storytelling category for his spoken word album, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama \u2013 adding the award to a collection that includes a Nobel peace prize, a presidential medal of freedom and the Gandhi peace prize.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/02\/grammys-2026-dalai-lama-first-grammy-award-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddhist spiritual leader wins best audiobook and says he sees win \u2018as a recognition of our shared universal responsibility\u2019Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar win big in Grammys ceremony filled with anti-ICE sentimentThe Dalai Lama has taken home his first G&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3500,763,511,211,50,71,1447,3498,3499,425,2272,371,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-awards-and-prizes","category-books","category-buddhism","category-china","category-culture","category-dalai-lama","category-grammy-awards-2026","category-grammys","category-music","category-music-industry","category-religion","category-tibet","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76197\/revisions\/76204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}