The Chinese Communist Party is intensifying efforts to control Tibetan Buddhism, particularly with the pending succession of ...

We asked three Tibetan friends at Free Tibet and Tibet Watch to share their views on the importance of the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama appears promptly and sits in front of ... without the community you cannot survive," he says. "In the past there was too much emphasis on my continent, my nation, my religion.

DURING the five years which have elapsed since the death of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, reports have appeared of the progress made in the search for his successor. According to Lamaistic belief ...

The title of "Dalai Lama", was not granted by the Dalai Lama himself, or created by Tibetan Buddhism, or conferred by the old Tibetan ruling class and still less by any foreigners. The title was ...

The Dalai Lama told me China's President Xi Jinping had yet to ask him for a meeting. He did tell me that he had had some discussions with retired Chinese officials in the past few years ...

The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since fleeing a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. Beijing has blamed him for past unrest among Tibetans in China - in the 1980s and 2008 ...

Dalai Lama wrote to congratulate Omar Abdullah on his coalition's success in the recent Assembly Polls and his appointment as the Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir in the Assembly polls. "As I have ...

The Panchen Lamas and Dalai Lamas consider themselves “spiritual friends,” but the relationship between the two figures and their communities has hardly been smooth. The latest smear campaig ...