A brisk wind ruffles yellow prayer flags as dozens of Tibetans, some on crutches, circle a shrine in a time-honored Buddhist ...

(The Conversation) — A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning. (The ...

Ashwini Bhatia / AP 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 ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (FāVS News) — By some they’ve been fondly called the “nuns from Newport.” For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes have been ...

The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...

When Mordy Levine, a longtime practitioner of Buddhist meditation, turned 60 five years ago, he found himself struggling with the inevitability of death. As he searched for a teacher to guide him on ...

Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama decides when and where he will reincarnate. But China's ruling Communist Party says ...

In Shimla, Tibetan Buddhist monks and the exile community observed the sacred Tshechu festival. They offered prayers for peace and harmony to Guru Padmasambhava during the auspicious month of Saga ...

In 1954, China’s paramount leader Mao Zedong met Tenzin Gyatso, the then 19-year-old who was the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. “Religion,” Mao acerbically observed to ...

Often described as a guide for the soul after death, the Tibetan Book of the Dead is the Western name for a section of the Bardo Thodol, a Tibetan Buddhist funerary text. Traditionally read aloud to ...