| Movie | 1984 | Merton: A Film Biography | Self - The Dalai Lama | |
| Movie | 2008 | Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV | Self | |
| Movie | 2003 | Women of K2 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2022 | Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | One Day on Earth | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | Tibet 2002 | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Invocation | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | AUTARK - Leben mit der Energiewende 4 | Self | |
| Movie | 2023 | King Charles III: The New Monarchy | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2019 | But Beautiful | | |
| Movie | 2003 | Wheel of Time | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | Discover the Gift | Self - Spiritual Leader of Tibet | |
| Movie | 2012 | Happy | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Compassion in Emptiness | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Nicky's Family | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Four Noble Truths | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | The Art of Dissent | Self - Subject (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2022 | Never Forget Tibet | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | Souls of Zen: Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Happiness Is | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm | Self - 14th Dalai Lama | |
| Movie | 2010 | When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2004 | Tibetan Refugee | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Earth Sutra | Self | |
| Movie | 2004 | What Remains of Us | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Jew in the Lotus | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | Flipside: A Journey into the Afterlife | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Buddha | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | Mystical Brain | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | Jesus in India | Self - His Holiness the 4th Dalai Lama | |
| Movie | 2020 | Beastie Boys Story | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Knowledge of Healing | Self | |
| Movie | 1991 | Galahad of Everest | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Dialogue | Self | |
| Movie | 1988 | Walking After Midnight | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | Tibet's Stolen Child | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Francisco Cisco Pancho | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Dalai Lama: Peace and Prosperity | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution | | |
| Movie | 2022 | Amala | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese | Self | |
| Movie | 1966 | The Message of the Tibetans | Self | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Ring of the Buddha | Self | |
| Movie | 1995 | Spirit of Tibet: Journey to Enlightenment, the Life and World of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche | Self | |
| Movie | 2013 | 14th Dalai Lama | Self | |
| Movie | 2004 | Impermanence | Self | |
| Movie | 2024 | Wisdom of Happiness | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Eine Reise in die Welt des Dalai Lama | | |
| Movie | 2013 | Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Tibetan Warrior | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Dance of Infinity | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | An Officer & His Holiness: The Dalai Lama's Secret Escape into Exile | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Enlightenment | Self | |
| Movie | 1956 | The Road Leads to Tibet | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Last Dalai Lama? | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Project Happiness | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama In His Own Words | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity | | |
| Movie | 2004 | Dalai Lama: Discourse on the Heart Sutra | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was... | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | Monte Grande: What is Life? | Self | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Secret of Death | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | A Case for Kindness | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | Tukdam – Between Worlds | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | Naqoyqatsi | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1998 | Free Tibet | Self - The Dalai Lama | |
| Movie | 2025 | The Dalai Lama's Gift | | |
| Movie | 2018 | Why Are We Creative? | Self | |
| Movie | N/A | Tukdam: The Point Of Death | | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Mayo Clinic | Self | |
| Movie | 2025 | Battle for Tibet | Self | |
| Movie | 1992 | Ian Stevenson Reincarnation Research Documentary | | |
| Movie | 2012 | Owned & Operated | Dalai Lama | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Lost World of Tibet | | |
| Movie | 2007 | In God's Name | | |
| Movie | 2009 | Mustang: Journey of Transformation | | |
| Movie | 2004 | Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela | | |
| Movie | 2008 | One Water | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | Monk with a Camera | Self | |
| TV Show | 2018 | Mega Icons | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | El mirador | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Gaia Symphony | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Apostrophes | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | MasterChef Australia | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | maybrit illner | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Beckmann | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Wortwechsel | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Kreuz & Quer | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Talk im Hangar-7 | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Club 2 | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1976 | 30 millions d'amis | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Quotidien | Self - Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 2025 | Dalai Lama - The Fateful Years of a Chosen One | Self | 3 |
