DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death. But as he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama leads a prayer in the Indian state of Bihar on Jan. 1, 2022. Sandeep Kumar/Anadolu Agency via ...

The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was dressed in military clothing, shedding his sacred robes. That change in his costume hid his real identity, fooling the Communist China's armed forces that had ...

Buddha himself was not born in a palace but under a tree. He attained enlightenment under a Bodhi tree. When he passed, it was under a tree. One of the rules during our monsoon retreat is that we ...

Tendzin Choegyal, the 16th Ngari Rinpoche, who has died aged 79, was the youngest brother of the Dalai Lama and a distinguished figure in the Tibetan exile community; he dedicated his life as a ...

The decision, however, is expected to irk China, which has repeatedly said that it alone has the authority to approve the next religious leader. It insists the reincarnated figure must be found in ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama attended a celebration of his 90th birthday according to the Tibetan calendar. The event Monday in honor of the Tibetan spiritual leader was held at the ...

"His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public," the Dalai Lama's office said Monday, referring to an interaction with a boy in India earlier this year ...

The Dalai Lama apologized for an interaction with a young boy on Monday after disturbed viewers saw the religious leader ask the boy to "suck my tongue." The 87-year-old exiled religious leader of ...

New Delhi — The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama apologized Monday after a video that showed him asking a boy to suck his tongue triggered a backlash on social media. The video, which has gone ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The 14th Dalai Lama cuts a familiar figure, with his shorn head, hedgerow-thick eyebrows, tinted eyeglasses, smiling visage and loose-fitting maroon and saffron robes. “I am just a ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending years of speculation that ...