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Also Known As Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities • Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
Notable Honorees 14th Dalai Lama • Charles Taylor • Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn • Mother Teresa • Paul Davies • Desmond Tutu • Martin Rees • Arthur Peacocke • Sir Sigmund Sternberg • Ian Barbour • Jonathan Sacks • Francisco J. Ayala • Jane Goodall • John Polkinghorne • Francisco Ayala • Michał Heller • Bernard d’Espagnat • Jean Vanier • Michael Novak • Freeman Dyson • Tomáš Halik • Charles Colson • Holmes Rolston III • Frank Wilczek • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan • Baba Amte

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