It would be quite appropriate for a college professor to assume students know that a tree is alive and a rock is not. The differences between modern biology and traditional Buddhist understandings of ...

SARATOGA, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Tang Teaching Museum, along with two other area art institutions, has received a stunning collection of Tibetan thangka paintings from collector and curator Jack Shear.

MONROE — Mark Winwood, who founded a Tibetan Buddhist group in Florida, moved to Monroe and is offering weekly teachings on a 2,500-year-old religion that remains unfamiliar to many Americans. People ...

When officials forced an informal school run by monks near here to stop offering language classes for laypeople, Tashi Wangchuk looked for a place where his two teenage nieces could continue studying ...

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, began a two-day event of introduction to Buddhism for Tibetan youths at the Tibetan Children's Village school here on Thursday. Tibetan spiritual leader, the ...

A woman waits in her shop for customers to come buy knick-knacks and jewelry. In the past several years, tourism has boosted the Shangri-La economy. Editor’s note: Kansas University graduate and ...

While the exact number of monks banned by the Litang county is not known, Chinese officials believe it is necessary to tighten supervision to prevent the “14th Dalai Lama” clique from using local ...

Several Tibetan schools located in Karnataka are seeking exemption from teaching Kannada as the first or second language, which is mandatory for all schools in the State. As per the Kannada Language ...

(The Conversation) — Religious beliefs and modern biology sometimes seem to collide. But exploring those ideas with compassion and an open mind can lead to deeper learning across cultures. (The ...

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