Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the dalai lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of tibet, a nobel prize winner, and an in...Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the dalai lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of tibet, a nobel prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman.