The Dalai Lama has arrived in Leh for a month-long visit, coinciding with his 90th birthday. Expect teachings on Bodhisattva ...

Explore Tibet's ongoing struggle against Chinese control, including the Dalai Lama’s spiritual succession and Beijing's ...

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, turned 90 years old and blessed the crowd of devotees gathered to offer their good wishes ...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, Anand Vardhan, and Shardool Katyayan are joined ...

The Dalai Lama has departed from his residence in McLeodganj on Saturday morning for a 45-day visit to Ladakh. Before leaving ...

China has also sought to elevate other spiritual figures, particularly Tibetan Buddhism’s No. 2 figure, the Panchen Lama. A boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the new Panchen disappeared soon after, ...

China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs unveiled its fifth batch of “standardized” names for 27 places located in Arunachal Pradesh ...

A young adventurer on a world tour finds herself at Rumtek Monastery, home to the Karmapa, his regents, and students.

While the spiritual leader’s campaign kept the cause of Tibet alive abroad, it failed to halt the destruction of the Tibetan ...

By Gwynne Dyer The whole business of succession would be a lot simpler if the Dalai Lama could just regenerate, like Doctor Who. When the time comes for The Doctor to stop looking like David ...

As a spiritual and political leader, the Dalai Lama has spent his life building a nation in exile, but potential disputes ...

With the dear old Dalai Lama, it’s different. Reincarnation still happens, but the souls of the dead migrate into the bodies of a newborn and retain no memory of their previous lives. This becomes a ...