The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tibetan fabric painting from the 17th or 18th century depicting a Bardo Cycle deity, representing transitional states between ...

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...

(The Conversation) — A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning. (The ...

In China, a group of atheists (the Chinese Communist Party) has long dictated how the country's religious groups should practice their faiths. Chinese Christians are told to reject salvation by faith ...

Many Westerners before me have visited Tibet, popped into some monastery on a mountainside, and decided to stay there forever, won over by the brutally frugal existence eked out by Tibetan Buddhists.

Over the weekend, I ran across this 2010 essay on Reason by Brendan O’Neill, who wrote about his frustration with the way Tibetan Buddhism is whitewashed in Western culture. O’Neill, by the way, is an ...

Senior Buddhist figures in China have emphasised the importance of government approval in the recognition of reincarnated Tibetan religious leaders, at a meeting this week less than a year before the ...

In Shimla, Tibetan Buddhist monks and the exile community observed the sacred Tshechu festival. They offered prayers for peace and harmony to Guru Padmasambhava during the auspicious month of Saga ...