For 66 years, India has harboured China's greatest ideological threat—the Dalai Lama. Yet despite hosting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader since 1959, New Delhi has consistently refrained from ...
India and China are sparring over the succession of the Dalai Lama after the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader announced his reincarnation earlier this week. Ahead of his 90th birthday on 6 July, the ...
A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The ...
The Dalai Lama has said he hopes to live beyond 130 years of age, speaking a day ahead of his 90th birthday, as the Buddhist spiritual leader’s succession has renewed frictions between India and China ...
DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending years of speculation that ...
DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death. But as he ...
DHARAMSHALA, India (Reuters) -A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify his successor as the spiritual head of ...
NEW DELHI – India has firmly thrown its weight behind the Dalai Lama’s exclusive right to decide his successor, opposing China’s assertion that it holds the final say in the Tibetan spiritual leader’s ...
The 90-year-old spiritual leader, while addressing the congregation during his teaching, said that although the Chinese ...