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'Dalai Lama's focus has been on Dialogue': Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director of Tibet House | INTERVIEW
Geshe Dorji Damdul has been long-time interpreter for the Dalai Lama and has played a key role in making Tibetan Buddhist ...
Escape from Tibet: How Nehru, despite concerns, granted the Dalai Lama asylum
Though several of his Cabinet colleagues told him that allowing the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism to remain in India ...
Dalai Lama says he plans to reincarnate, ensuring Tibet’s Buddhism institution continues
Speaking at prayer celebrations ahead of his 90th birthday on Sunday, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said the ...
Tibetan leader expects more back-channel talks with China, but not hopeful on results
The Tibetan government-in-exile could hold more back-channel talks with China this year on greater autonomy for Tibet, although they are unlikely to yield results given Beijing's unyielding stance, ...
From a Free Tibet to a divided one, in New Delhi’s Majnu ka Tila, expectations and apprehensions around the next Dalai Lama run high
Ladakh. Manali. Dharamshala. Somewhere in Mongolia; maybe even some province in Canada — for the Tibetan refugees living and working in Delhi’s famous Majnu ka Tila, the possibilities about the next ...
Dalai Lama, god-king for Tibetan Buddhists, will have a successor. That decision is consequential
The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity.