This Tableau from "Missing Peace" by artist Jenny Holzer features a truism inspired by the Dalai Lama.

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a multi-media art exhibition that brings together 88 respected artists representing 30 countries. The exhibition has been shown in Los Angeles and New York and will travel to Tokyo, Japan and other venues around the world for several years.  Artists with work in the exhibition include Bill Viola, El Anatsui, Richard Avedon, Christo, Guy Buffet, Chuck Close, Marina Abramovic, Herb Ritts, and Anish Kapoor.

"Tenzin Gyatso, Ocean of Wisdom," 2005, by Losang Gyatso features His Holiness' penchant for flip flops.

The artist, Sylvie Fleury asked for a personal item from the Dalai Lama so she could create an artwork to include his aura by way of a Kirlian photograph. These shoes covered many miles marking the spiritual footsteps of His Holiness, as he traveled the world spreading his message of Peace. During the course of his journeys, the Dalai Lama took great comfort from the shoes as he had them resoled several times. As Ms Fleury’s photograph of them depicts, they seem to radiate the energy field of his Holiness.

Celebrated artist, Chuck Close, painted this ultra-realistic portrait of His Holiness.

The Missing Peace is a collaboration between the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation. The artists, both established and emerging, were selected because their work addresses themes that are embodied by the Dalai Lama: compassion, peace, unity of all things, impermanence, spirituality, belief systems, community, and people in exile, non-violence, happiness, and tolerance.  With the full life of the Dalai Lama as inspiration, the intention for this project is to shift the world’s attention towards peace.  To see more of “Missing Peace,” the art exhibit inspired by the Dalai Lama, view the video here.

"A meditative sense of the Dalai Lama, his reincarnation, and his evolutionary journey... a feeling of his enduring evolution... his inner strength, his peace... an occasion of oneness with the wonderful and paradoxical sentient presence of infinite compassion.” -Chase Bailey