U.S. wants U.N. to address Dalai Lama succession issue, build global support for religious freedom
The United States wants the United Nations to take up the Dalai Lama's succession to stop China from trying to handpick his successor, an envoy said after meeting the Tibetan spiritual leader. Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said he spoke at ...
U.S. ambassador urges China to talk to the Dalai Lama during Tibet trip
China should hold talks with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad told Chinese officials during a trip to the Himalayan region where he criticized Beijing for interfering in religious freedom. Branstad visited Tibet last week, the first such trip ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to meet the Dalai Lama during a 2014 visit to India but a "cautious" New Delhi did not allow it to happen, a new book has claimed. The 83-year-old Buddhist monk has made India his home since fleeing the Tibetan ...
Dalai Lama released from New Delhi hospital, says he feels 'almost normal' after treatment
The Dalai Lama was released from an Indian hospital on Friday, saying he felt "normal, almost normal" after being treated for a chest infection. The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader looked pale but strong and spoke cheerfully as he walked out of the New Delhi hospital ...
Dalai Lama, 83, taken to New Delhi hospital for chest pain, said to be OK
The Dalai Lama has undergone a checkup at a New Delhi hospital following chest pains, according to an aide who said the octogenarian Tibetan spiritual leader was in stable condition. Ngodup Tsering, the 83-year-old Buddhist monk's representative in the United States, told AFP the Dalai ...
In interview, Dalai Lama contemplates Chinese gambit after his death
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said Monday it was possible that once he dies his incarnation could be found in India, where he has lived in exile for 60 years, and warned that any other successor named by China would ...
A look back at the Dalai Lama's dramatic 1959 escape from China-ruled Tibet
In March 1959, Tibet's ruler and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fled his homeland amid a deadly Chinese crackdown, escaping to India in a grueling two-week trek. There he formed a government-in-exile and demand autonomy for Tibet, going on to earn international renown and respect ...
It has been six decades since the Dalai Lama fled into exile, but in the isolated mountain hamlet where he was born, he remains very much on the minds of devotees and Chinese authorities alike. Lying on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan plateau in ...
The Dalai Lama said Saturday that he has known about sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers since the 1990s and that such allegations are "nothing new." The Tibetan spiritual leader, revered by millions of Buddhists around the world, made the admission during a four-day visit to ...
As Trump cozies up to China's Xi, Dalai Lama has to wait on the sidelines
When Donald Trump was elected in November, the Dalai Lama said he was keen to meet the incoming U.S. president, but since then Trump has cozied up to China's leader Xi Jinping, making it less likely the man Beijing deems a separatist will get ...
Chinese official says U.S. should stop using Dalai Lama to stir up trouble
The United States should stop using the Dalai Lama to create trouble for China, a senior Chinese official in charge of Tibet affairs told an influential state-run newspaper. The U.S. is damaging ties with China, said Zhu Weiqun, head of the ethnic and religious affairs ...
Czech president accused of denying medal to Holocaust survivor who met Dalai Lama
Czech President Milos Zeman has decided against awarding a state medal to a Holocaust survivor whose nephew, a government minister, met exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama against the president's wishes, the minister said on Friday. The Czech Republic has been engulfed in political furor ...
