His Holiness the Dalai Lama among World’s 100 Most Influential People: TIMETuesday, 29 April 2009, 12:58 p.m.

Dharamshala: TIME,
one of the most celebrated and widely read magazines in the world,
listed His Holiness the Dalai Lama among the world’s 100 most
influential figures in its third annual poll.His Holiness the Dalai Lama received a total vote of 651,945 and is ranked 61.His
Holiness was listed among the world’s 100 most influential people,
under the category of influential leaders and revolutionaries, in the
2008 poll.In 2006, TIME listed His Holiness the Dalai Lama as
one of five Asian heroes in 60 years since the magazine began
publishing an Asian edition. The winner of the third annual
TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World’s Most Influential
Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the
online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole,
received 16,794,368 votes.Since moot launched 4chan.org in
2003, the site has given birth to Internet memes as diverse as Lolcats
and Rickrolling. 4chan averages 13 million page views a day and 5.6
million visitors a month; by some estimates it is the second largest
bulletin board in the world. (See the TIME 100 finalists.)US President Barack Obama is ranked 37.Three
Indians — Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, movie mogul Ronnie
Screwvala, the brain behind world’s cheapest car Nano Ratan Tata —
also feature in the list.