Most significant positive evidence
Decades of nonviolent advocacy, religious tolerance, compassion and voluntary relinquishment of political authority.
Person
The 14th Dalai Lama
Nonviolent advocacy for Tibet, compassion, interfaith dialogue, secular ethics and democratic transfer of temporal authority.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+69.72
Reasoned summary
A strongly positive record centred on nonviolence, pluralism, compassion and restraint in the use of authority.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The reincarnation institution remains unelected and rests on supernatural claims.
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Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +83.33
- Rights and dignity
- +75.00
- Nonviolence and harm
- +65.00
- Stewardship of power
- +60.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +70.00
- Consequential legacy
- +65.00
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: The 14th Dalai Lama (1959–2026)
1959–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile