Senior religious figures representing four schools of Tibetan Buddhism on Wednesday unanimously endorsed the Dalai Lama's sole authority to choose his successor, guaranteeing legitimacy that a possible Chinese appointee would lack. Over 100 lamas, including nine high lamas, or senior Buddhist priests, representing all schools ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
China on Wednesday warned Taiwan's new government against allowing exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit, after a high-profile Taiwanese legislator invited him to the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own. China regards the 80-year-old monk as a separatist. Taiwan's former ...
New Taiwan president's dilemma: whether to host the Dalai Lama
Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen's diplomatic honeymoon with China could be short-lived if she allows the Dalai Lama to visit the self-ruled democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, two senior political sources said. China regards Tibet's exiled spiritual leader as a separatist, and Ma ...
Chinese government adviser denounces fake living Buddhas: state media
A senior Chinese government official said fake living Buddhas were using donations to support pro-independence activities in Tibet and called on local authorities to take action against them, according to state media. Local governments in Tibet should cooperate with their counterparts in eastern and central ...
The Chinese Communist Party's fight against corruption is also being applied in Tibet to officials who secretly believe in religion and try to make pilgrimages to the Dalai Lama, China's top official in the region said on Monday. Beijing says it "peacefully liberated" Tibet in ...
