The Dalai Lama delivered major news for the future of Tibetan Buddhism and its millions of followers, from China to Texas, last month when he announced he would reincarnate a successor to lead the ...

DHARAMSHALA, India — The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death. But as he approaches his ...

The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader said in his new book. This is the first time the 89-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader has explicitly said that his ...

DHARAMSHALA, India — Days ahead of his 90th birthday, Tibetan Buddhism's top spiritual leader said the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue. The Dalai Lama made the statement in a pre-recorded ...

It would perhaps be asking too much for a biography of the 14th Dalai Lama, divinely appointed leader of Tibet, to treat its subject with a skeptical eye, particularly when it's obviously being ...

Fifty years ago today, two mortar shells landed near the Tibetan palace of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. “When the Chinese guns sounded that warning of death, the first thought in the mind of ...

Night had settled upon the roof of the world. With a jingling of harness and the clipclop of hooves, a small caravan wound slowly up the 17,000-ft. pass. Ahead lay the snowy summits of the Himalayas, ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is preparing to address one of the most sensitive questions in global religion and geopolitics: who will succeed him. Ahead of his 90th birthday on July 6, he ...

NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the ...

Name: Born Lhamo Thondup, he adopted the name Tenzin Gyatso when recognized as the Dalai Lama as a toddler. He is also referred to as His Holiness, Kundun (The Presence), Precious Victor and Inmost ...

Days ahead of his 90th birthday, Tibetan Buddhism’s top spiritual leader said the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue. The Dalai Lama made the statement in a pre-recorded video that aired at ...