This monastery was built by the first Dalai Lama and acts as a seat to the Panchen Lama, the most important leader in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama. Shigatse is also the closest big city ...

"One constant in everybody's life has been the presence of the Dalai Lama," said Jinpa, who fled Tibet with his parents as a ...

A “no photograph upon landing” announcement punctured the serene silence of the cabin as I gazed at the snow-capped peaks outside our airplane window, a stark reminder that we were entering a land of ...

The Dalai Lama has hopes for Tibet, but as someone who knows the feeling of having governance forced upon him all too well, he does not say that these conditions are the absolutely correct ones.

Preparations are in full swing for the celebration of the Dalai Lama’s birthday in July, Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong (elected leader) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), told The Hindu.

Show more Show less The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, in New Delhi in 1989. Tenzin Gyatso will turn 90 in July 2025 Thupten Jinpa is a Buddhist scholar and the main translator for ...