The choice of a successor to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists, is a matter of riveting interest not ...

The exchange highlighted how the process of identifying the next Dalai Lama could add fresh tensions to relations between the ...

Speaking to reporters ahead of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday celebrations in Dharamshala on July 6, Rijiju declared, “The ...

The Tibetan government-in-exile could hold more back-channel talks with China this year on greater autonomy for Tibet, ...

Long before Tenzin Gyatso became the global face of Tibetan Buddhism, thirteen Dalai Lamas shaped the spiritual and political ...

Rijiju, a practising Buddhist, is in Dharamshala along with Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh to attend the Dalai Lama's 90th ...

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 Tibetan Buddhism, in a rare comment ...

Despite being a stateless monk with no official power, the Dalai Lama remains one of China’s most persistent challenges. As ...

Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist ...

The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for ...

DHARAMSHALA – As he approaches his 90th birthday, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, announced on July 1 ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...