Tibetan Buddhism is a distinct form of Buddhism that developed on the Tibetan Plateau. It blends Indian Buddhist philosophy with indigenous Tibetan traditions. The religion emphasizes compassion, ...

Each year, ever since the early 1400s, Tibetan Buddhists gather to unveil a large thangka — a painting made on fabric — of Buddha. The great prayer ritual, which was banned during the cultural ...

In the mountains, Tibetan mastiffs dare to tread where other pups would drop their squeaky toys and whimper with exhaustion. The massive, 150-pound animals thrive at high altitudes, and now ...

Before becoming Lama Tsomo, she was Hyatt Hotel chain heiress Linda Pritzker. — -- Before Lama Tsomo became one of the first American women ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist lama, or spiritual ...

In March 2008, Amy Yee — then a Delhi correspondent for the Financial Times — attended a press conference given by the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, where he had established a government in exile ...

For the past two years, reports have laid bare the systematic erasure of Tibetan identity, and Tibetans across the world have been staging protests, demanding accountability from China. Most recently, ...

A failed Tibetan uprising on March 10, 1959, in the capital Lhasa led to the expulsion of the religious leader the Dalai Lama and continues to reverberate throughout China's efforts to become a major ...

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 ...

DHARAMSHALA, India — The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been ...

For more than 10,000 years, the Tibetan nomads have roamed freely on the lush grasslands of China’s Tibetan Plateau, also called “the Roof of the World.” But with China’s resettlement programs pushing ...

Today I’m speaking the Tibetan language! There are actually several different related dialects in Tibet that fall in the “Tibetic” language language group, but I’ve been learning Lhasa Tibetan, which ...

For Ning, Tibet is no passive utopia. It’s the uneasy cultural crossroads where globalisation, spirituality and the political ...