In Tibetan Buddhism, it's acceptable for a dalai lama to reincarnate outside China or Tibet. The 4th dalai lama was born in Mongolia in 1589, and the 6th, Tsangyang Gyatso, was born in 1682 in the ...

China has already done something similar with the Panchen Lama. The boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as the Panchen Lama was ...

The 14th Dalai Lama was only 23 years old when he fled Tibet and sought refuge in India. This happened in the face of the Tibetan uprising in 1959, which was followed by the Chinese invasion of Lhasa, ...

The analyst also mentioned that if Beijing is successful in tightening its iron hand on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, then the ...

The previous 13 Dalai Lamas all took birth either in the year that their predecessor died, or a year later. They were mostly ...

Richard Gere, who is the best-known supporter of the Dalai Lama and his people, addressed the inaugural session of ...

HOUSTON — The ISS astronauts had a front-row seat to a unique weather phenomenon Thursday morning. Astronaut Nichole "Vapor" ...

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

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 ...

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

The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after ...