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At the 2026 Grammy Awards, one of the world’s best known spiritual leaders will compete against Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, ceremony host Trevor Noah, and actress Kathy Garver. They’ve all been nominated in the category of Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording. Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama is the entry from the world’s foremost Tibetan Buddhist, an album of innovative collaborations with Hindustani classical influences. Atop the music are collages of his remarks on themes like mindfulness, harmony, and health, captured over the course of his 75-year career as the 14th Dalai Lama.

“Within my lifetime in the Taktser area, winter on this mountain, annually more snow, then year by year, less and less,” the Dalai Lama says on the track “Water,” citing the town in eastern Tibet where he was born with the name Lhamo Thondup. He spends that track talking about the need to preserve the precious natural resource of water. Elsewhere, on “Peace,” the Dalai Lama says, “A compassionate mind is very happy. Usually people consider compassion [a] religious subject. No, compassion is for our own survival.”