India’s explicit endorsement of the Dalai Lama’s announcement on the naming of his own successor marks a turning point—not just in the spiritual saga of Tibetan Buddhism, but in the geopolitics of ...

By Gwynne Dyer The whole business of succession would be a lot simpler if the Dalai Lama could just regenerate, like Doctor Who. When the time comes for The Doctor to stop looking like David ...

China has asserted that it alone will approve any future Dalai Lama under what it describes as an established legal and ...

As the 14th Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday with thousands of Tibetan Buddhists, there’s already tension over how the ...

It is indeed ironic that an atheist State believes in ‘religious rituals’ and has suddenly become knowledgeable in an esoteric issue such as the soul migration ...

With the dear old Dalai Lama, it’s different. Reincarnation still happens, but the souls of the dead migrate into the bodies of a newborn and retain no memory of their previous lives. This becomes a ...

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu emphasised the state shares a 1,200km border with Tibet, not China, taking a ...

As the Dalai Lama turns 90, China prepares to name a rival successor. But the spiritual leader’s soft power has already ...