Morning has broken on the cedar-strewn foothills of the Himalayas. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama sits in meditation in his private chapel in Dharamsala, a ramshackle town perched on the upper ...

The Wisconsin Tibetan Association began a three-day event celebrating the 90th birthday of the Dalai Lama on Friday.

The Dalai Lama has announced that he will have a successor after his death, continuing a centuries-old tradition that has become a flashpoint in the struggle with China’s Communist Party over Tibet’s ...

Incantations ring out at Mongolia's largest monastery as worshippers pray alongside pictures of the Dalai Lama, whose 90th birthday on Sunday has raised fresh questions about the future of the ...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh – The Latest on violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state and the flood of ethnic Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh (all times local): 1:10 p.m. The Dalai Lama says the suffering of ...

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14 th Dalai Lama of Tibet, holds a unique position in the Western imagination. He is one of the world’s most visible religious figures, comparable in status to the pope or the Rev.

Tsangyang Gyatso was born in 1683 and formally became the sixth Dalai Lama in 1697. This living Buddha, celebrated for his poetic compositions, is regarded as the most legendary o ...

DHARAMSHALA, India — The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity. They also see him as the ...

BEIJING — As the world’s most famous Buddhist, the Dalai Lama is a monk juggling two jobs. One is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, and the other is the political head of his government in ...

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