Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an ...

Over the past two decades, Beijing has surged ahead in using Buddhism ... the administration of the temple and the abolition of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949,” announced Akash Lama, the general ...

How to reach: Get off at Shuangqiao Station and take a taxi. Also known as Lama Temple or Yonghe Lamasery, this temple is the biggest Tibetan Buddhist temple in Beijing, always crowded with locals.

The supreme authority of Tibetan Buddhism, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet in 1959 in ... has become a point of tension with Beijing, which aims to designate his successor.

China weathered no consequences for abducting a 6-year-old in 1995. That same impunity continues to fuel collective punishment, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention.

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged China to free the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choki Nyima, and his parents, who were removed from public view in 1995 and have remained missing ever since. As the ...

This weekend, Haverhill’s Temple Emanu-El — a timeworn yellow-brick edifice on the city’s Main Street that opened its doors 88 years ago — will host goodbye parties for itself. That would ...

For example, the first such exercise — in 2017 — followed the Dalai Lama's visit to the state ... another example of coercive diplomacy that Beijing is known to practice to validate its ...

In Bhakra village of western Nepal’s Manang district, 72-year-old Buddhist nun Tashi Lama sits in silence, chanting as she ...

Chinese officials, influencers and state-run media on Monday were casting the initial trade agreement and 90-day tariff pause with the U.S. as a victory and a vindication of Beijing's negotiating ...

At a business forum attended by Lula in Beijing on Monday, Brazil's trade and investment promotion agency said it helped attract around 27 billion reais ($4.8 billion) of Chinese investment to Brazil.