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The Dalai Lama has taken home his first Grammy award, prompting criticism from China.

The 90-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, was announced as the winner for the narration and storytelling category for his spoken word album, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama – adding the award to a collection that includes a Nobel peace prize, a presidential medal of freedom and the Gandhi peace prize.

“I receive this recognition with gratitude and humility,” he said in a social media post after the awards on Sunday night. “I don’t see it as something personal, but as a recognition of our shared universal responsibility.”