Archbishop Tutu was received by the Tibetan spiritual leader at the Kangra airport, and was given a rousing welcome by the exiled Tibetans and the locals. Shimla: Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu was felicitated by the Tibetan and the Indian ...
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, hosted South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the northern Indian city of Dharamsala, where Tutu made an impassioned plea to China to change its policies in Tibet. The Dalai Lama on Thursday asked his fellow ...
China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set them-selves on fire and other forms of protest. Even so ...
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, hosted South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the northern Indian city of Dharamsala, where Tutu made an impassioned plea to China to change its policies in Tibet. The Dalai Lama on Thursday asked his fellow ...
China rejects accusations of oppression of Tibetans, saying its rule has greatly improved living standards for the Tibetan people. It has accused the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, of encouraging people to harm themselves in ...
Several Tibetan monks from Tibet, Sichuan and other Chinese provinces who were allowed to attend last month's Kalachakra initiations led by the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya have been detained and questioned upon their return, according to informed sources in ...
Tibetan Buddhism’s third foremost leader tells his fellow believers to have faith in the future and follow the Dalai Lama. As self-immolations continue in Tibet, Beijing uses an iron fist against protest. Local Communist officials are urged to do everything to maintain social stability.
The Department of Home Affairs has welcomed the judgment in the Western Cape High Court dismissing the IFP and Cope application against government regarding the visa application for the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. “The department is currently ...
CAPE TOWN (AFP) - A South African court on Friday dismissed a case brought by two opposition parties challenging the government's failure to grant the Dalai Lama a visa last year. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader had sought a visa to attend fellow Nobel ...
About 500 Tibetans, mostly young lay people, in traditional Tibetan dresses, ate traditional Tibetan food Tsampa and carried incenses as they chanted prayers and slogans for long life of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Armed security ...
Members of the Tibetan community demonstrate in front of the Chinese embassy in Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday as part of the worldwide vigil day to highlight the plight of the people in Tibet. (EPA Photo/Jacek Turczyk)
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Archbishop and Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu urges China to grant autonomy to Tibet in India’s northern Dharamsala town where Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama also addressed the audience. (Video: Reuters/Photo: AP)Read Full Story
For more than sixty years, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been the spiritual leader of Tibet and a champion of human rights and nonviolence. Known worldwide for his views on compassion, self-discipline, and meditation, the Dalai Lama inspires millions of people to live according to his teachings. The Insight from the Dalai Lama 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar offers a meaningful quote from the Dalai Lama on each page, revealing that true altruistic enlightenment is attainable to all of us... You...Read Full Story
Unrest ahead of Tibetan New Year
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Tensions has periodically swelled in ethnic Tibetan regions of China since March 2008
Rights Group: Since March 2011, 16 people have set themselves on fire in protest
(CNN) -- The escalation of tensions in ethnically Tibetan regions of China is the latest in a series that have resulted in deaths, frayed ties between the United States and China, and greater pressure from Beijing against the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet for...Read Full Story
A Tibetan died and two others were seriously hurt when they set themselves on fire in a remote Chinese village in the latest protests against Beijing's rule, an exile group and US-based broadcaster said. This brings to at least 19 the number of Tibetans to have set themselves on fire in the past year in protest against what they see as repressive policies in Tibetan-inhabited areas, which were hit by deadly unrest last month. The London-based group Free Tibet and US-backed Radio Free Asia...Read Full Story
Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama to be one of innumerable incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.
The Dalai Lama is considered the supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, and the leaders of all four schools consider the Dalai Lama to be the highest lama of the Tibetan traditions. He is often styled " His Holiness...more
Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama to be one of innumerable incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.
The Dalai Lama is considered the supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, and the leaders of all four schools consider the Dalai Lama to be the highest lama of the Tibetan traditions. He is often styled " His Holiness " before his title.
Tibetans call the Dalai Lama Gyalwa Rinpoche meaning "Precious Victor," or Yishin Norbu meaning "Wish-fulfilling Jewel".