List of international trips made by the 14th Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, has made a total of international trips since 1967. In 1973, he made his first visit to Europe. He made his first visit to North America in 1979.

List Date(s)InformationCities visitedCountryOctober 1967SpeechesTokyo14–17 November 1967Met with Prime Minister of Thailand Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn and King Bhumibol Adulyadej.Bangkok30 September 1973Met with Pope Paul VI.2 October 1973Met with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadruddin Aga Khan.Geneva9 October 1973Met with Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.Amsterdam10 October 1973Met with Irish Foreign Minister Frank Aiken, Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave and President of Ireland Erskine Hamilton Childers.Dublin19 October 1973Met with Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark.Oslo25 October 1973Met with Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey.London3 September 1979Welcoming at St. Patrick's Cathedral, viewed Statue of Liberty.New York City15 September 1979Met with Governor of Wisconsin Lee Dreyfus.Madison9 October 1980Met with Pope John Paul II.1 November 1980Met with Prime Minister of Japan Suzuki Zenko.Tokyo27 July 1982Met with former prime minister of Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman.Kuala Lumpur2 August 1982Met with Vice President of Indonesia Adam Malik.Jakarta8 October 1982Met with Pope John Paul II.3 July 1984Met with Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie.London13 May 1986Met with President of Austria Rudolf Kirchschläger.Vienna17–20 May 1986Met with Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.Amsterdam11 September 1986Met with Patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church Pimen I of MoscowMoscow27 October 1986Met with Pope John Paul II.20 September 1987Met with former president of the United States Jimmy Carter.Atlanta13 April 1988Met with Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie.London14 June 1988Met with Pope John Paul II.18 June 1988Met with Sadruddin Aga Khan.Geneva27 June 1989Met with President of Costa Rica Óscar Arias.San José3 July 1989Met with President of Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari.Mexico City7–8 December 1989Met with former Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt and President of the Bundestag Rita SüssmuthBerlin9–11 December 1989Met with Prime Minister of Norway Jan P. Syse, King of Norway Olav V and Foreign Minister Kjell Magne BondevikOslo3 February 1990Met with President of Czechoslovakia Václav HavelPrague24 April 1990Met with Foreign Minister of Belgium Mark EyskensBrussels1 June 1990Met with Pope John Paul II.4 June 1990Met with President of the Autonomous Government of Navarra Gabriel Urralburu.Pamplona5 September 1990Met with President of the Autonomous Government of the Balearic Islands Gabriel Cañellas.Mallorca10 September 1990Met with Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Hans van den Broek.Amsterdam4 October 1990Met with President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker.Bonn18–21 March 1991Met with Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester; Charles, Prince of Wales; James Mackay (Lord Chancellor); Bernard Weatherill (Commons Speaker). Also met Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Opposition.London22 March 1991Met with President of Ireland Mary Robinson.Dublin16 April 1991Met with President of the United States George H. W. Bush, President of Nicaragua Violeta Chamorro, Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia Jiří Dienstbier, former Permanent Representative to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tom Foley.Washington, D.C.16 July 1991Met with Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein.Vaduz19 July 1991Met with Foreign Minister of Switzerland René Felber.Bern29 September–2 October 1991Met with President of Lithuania Vytautas Landsbergis. Met with Prime Minister of Lithuania Gediminas Vagnorius. Met with Acting President of Latvia Anatolijs GorbunovsVilna4 October 1991Met with Chairman of the Supreme Council of Estonia Ülo Nugis. Met with Foreign Affairs Commissioner of Estonia Indrek ToomeTallinn5 October 1991Met with President of Bulgaria Zhelyu Zhelev.Sofia10 October 1991Met with former Shahbanu of Iran Farah Pahlavi.Hartford2 December 1991Met with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major.London3–5 December 1991Met with Foreign Minister of Sweden Margaretha af Ugglas, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.Stockholm7–8 December 1991Met with Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland. Met with Nobel Peace Prize winners President of Poland Lech Wałęsa and Bishop Desmond Tutu.Oslo4–8 May 1992Met with Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating. Met with Foreign Minister of Australia Gareth Evans. Met with Prime Minister of Kampuchea Son Sann.Canberra, Melbourne13 May 1992Met with Foreign Minister of New Zealand Don McKinnon and Prime Minister of New Zealand Jim Bolger.Wellington11 June 1992Met with President of Argentina Carlos Menem.Buenos Aires20 June 1992Met with President of Chile Patricio Aylwin.Santiago de Chile27 April 1993Met with Vice President of the United States Al Gore and President of the United States Bill Clinton.Washington, D.C.10–12 May 1993Met with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Douglas Hurd and Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey.London17 May 1993Met with President of Poland Lech Wałęsa.Warsaw14 June 1993Met with President of Austria Thomas Klestil.Vienna14 April 1994Met with Governor of Hawaii John D. Waiheʻe III.Honolulu28 April 1994Met with President of the United States Bill Clinton and Vice President of the United States Al Gore.Washington, D.C.29 April 1994Met with President of the Bundestag Rita Süssmuth.Frankfurt am Main4 June 1994Met with Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Pieter Kooijmans.Amsterdam7 June 1994Met with Foreign Minister of Belgium Willy Claes.Brussels14 June 1994Met with Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs of San Marino Gabriele Gatti.San Marino16–17 June 1994Met with President of the Chamber of Deputies Irene Pivetti, President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and President of the Italian Senate Carlo Scognamiglio.RomeMet with Pope John Paul II.4–5 July 1994Met with President of Nicaragua Violeta Chamorro. Met with Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Ernesto Leal. Met with President of the Nicaraguan National Assembly Luis Humberto GuzmanManagua3 May 1995Met with Vice President of the German Parliament Antje VollmerBonn1 August 1995Met with Minister of Culture of Mongolia Nambaryn EnkhbayarUlaanbaatar15 May 1996Met with Foreign Minister of Denmark Niels Helveg PetersenCopenhagen2 May 1996Met with Pope John Paul II.23 May 1996Met with Foreign Minister of Sweden Lena Hjelm-WallénStockholm28 May 1996Met with Foreign minister of Norway Bjorn Tore GodalOslo17 July 1996Met with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Douglas HurdLondon20–23 August 1996Met with President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, former State President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk and Bishop Desmond TutuCape Town, Pretoria11 September 1996Met with Foreign Minister of New Zealand Don McKinnon and Prime Minister of New Zealand Jim BolgerWellington14 September 1996Met with Foreign Minister of Australia Alexander Downer and Prime Minister of Australia John HowardMelbourne23 October 1996Tapaainen Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Hans van MierloAmsterdam23 October 1996Met with President of the European Commission Jacques Santer and President of the European Parliament Klaus HanschStrasbourg27 March 1997Met with President of Taiwan Lee Teng-huiTaipei16 April 1997Met with President of the Autonomous Government of Basque Country Jose Antonio Ardanza Garro and President of the Autonomous Government of Basque Parliament Joseba Andoni Leizaola AzpiazuGuernica, Vitoria-Gasteiz23 April 1997Met with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Vice President of the United States Al Gore and President of the United States Bill ClintonWashington, D.C.5 September 1997Met with President of the Czech Republic Václav HavelPrague6 April 1998Met with former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail GorbachevKyoto4–11 May 1998Met with former president of the United States Jimmy Carter. Met with Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman. Met with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Met with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson.New York City9 June 1998Met with Foreign Minister of Austria Wolfgang SchüsselVienna17 June 1998Met with President of the French National Assembly Laurent FabiusParis10 November 1998Met with United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Vice President of the United States Al Gore and President of the United States Bill Clinton.Washington, D.C.8 December 1998Met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, Prime Minister of France Lionel Jospin and President of France Jacques Chirac.Paris7 April 1999Met with President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso.Brasília13 April 1999Met with President of Chile Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.Santiago de Chile4 May 1999Met with Prime Minister of Belgium Jean-Luc Dehaene.Brussels10–12 May 1999Met with Prince Charles of Wales. Met with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Robin Cook. Met with Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey. Met with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony BlairHighgrove, London16–17 July 1999Met with Interior Minister of Germany Otto Schily. Met with Foreign Minister of Germany Joschka FischerBonn18 October 1999Met with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Wim Kok and foreign minister Jozias van Aartseni.The Hague26 October 1999Met with Prime Minister of Italy Massimo D'Alema.Rome28 October 1999Met with Pope John Paul II.24 November 1999Met with Speaker of the Knesset Avraham Burg and Minister of Education of Israel Yossi Sarid.Jerusalem11 May 2000Met with Prime Minister of Poland Jerzy Buzek and Marshal of the Sejm Maciej Płażyński.Warsaw16–17 May 2000Met with Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson, Foreign Minister of Sweden Anna Lindh and Speaker of the Riksdag Birgitta Dahl.Stockholm21 May 2000Met with Prime Minister of Denmark Poul Nyrup RasmussenCopenhagen22–23 May 2000Met with Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg. Met with Foreign minister of Norway Thorbjørn Jagland. Met with King of Norway Harald V.Oslo20 June–3 July 2000Met with United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Met with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke. Met with President of the United States Bill Clinton.Washington, D.C.11–13 October 2000Met with Foreign Minister of Hungary János Martonyi and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán.Budapest16 October 2000Met with President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel.Prague21 October 2000Met with President of Ireland Mary McAleese.Belfast2–7 April 2001Met with Prime Minister of Taiwan Chang Chun-hsiung, President of Taiwan Chen Shui-bian and Vice President of Taiwan Annette Lu.Taipei6 May 2001Met with Interior Minister of Switzerland Ruth DreifussBasel9–23 May 2001Met with President of the United States George W. Bush. Met with United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Met with United States Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Met with Governor of Oregon John Kitzhaber. Met with Governor of Utah Michael Leavitt. Met with Governor of Minnesota Jesse VenturaSaint Paul, Salt Lake City, Portland, Washington, D.C.19 June 2001Met with Prime Minister of Estonia Mart LaarTallinn21–23 June 2001Met with Prime Minister of Latvia Andris Bērziņš. Met with President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-FreibergaRiga24 June 2001Met with President of Lithuania Valdas AdamkusVilnius24 October 2001Met with President of the European Parliament Nicole Fontaine. Met with Prime Minister of Bulgaria Simeon Saxe-Coburg-GothaStrasbourg27–28 November 2001Met with President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio.FátimaMet with Italian Minister of Agriculture Gianni AlemannoPomaia28 May 2002Met with Prime Minister of New Zeala