China is attempting to target and destroy Buddhism but it won't succeed, the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said during the third and last day teaching program at Kalachakra Maidan in Bodh Gaya.

Buddha Purnima - also known as Buddha Jayanti or Vaisakhi Buddha Purnima or Vesak, is celebrated to mark the day Gautam Buddha was born. The Dalai Lama on Monday recalled the principles and disciples ...

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 ...

He has encouraged nuns to become advanced degree holders as part of his broader goal to increase gender parity ...

BEIJING (Reuters) Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a senior lama is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. China says the tradition must continue and it must approve the next Dalai ...

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 ...

Thousands of devotees lined the streets of Elista, offering prayers and chants as the sacred relics arrived amid great ...

The institution of the Dalai Lama is a relatively recent one. There have been only 14 Dalai Lamas in the history of Buddhism. The Dalai Lama is the head monk of Tibetan Buddhism and traditionally has ...

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.

Last Saturday at Battery Park, a group of Burlington’s Nepali residents celebrated Sansari Puja, or Mother Nature worship. The annual event organized by the Kirat Rai and Limbu communities is intended ...

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Tibetan lama and filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche takes pride in his connection to the Buddhist tradition, which puts emphasis on critical self-education. But at a Friday talk, “Projecting the ...