Paradoxically, Beijing wants to teach Buddhism to Tibet. In September 2025, a meeting was convened in Lhasa by Wang Junzheng, ...

(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 ...

Xi Jinping was a toddler when the 14th Dalai Lama was received by Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1954. The Dalai Lama had a special love for Jinping’s father Xi Zhongxun, a politburo member ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party's fight against corruption is also being applied in Tibet to officials who secretly believe in religion and try to pay pilgrimages to the Dalai Lama, ...

For millions of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama is a symbol of resistance. For Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, he is simply another annoyance, like with the rebels in Taiwan and the democracy ...

The Central Tibetan Administration commemorates monk Sonam Dhargyal, who self-immolated on March 17, 2012. The act highlights ongoing Tibetan concerns over religious freedom and cultural identity ...

For over 1,000 years, art has been a crucial facet of Tibetan culture, namely, spiritual art. Intimately associated with Buddhism, art revolved around the religious and philosophical ideals of the ...

Note on Ming Shilu and Qing Shilu -- Note on Tibetan terms -- Garrison city in the Ming : indigenes and the state in greater Songpan -- Qing Songpan : recovery, over-extension and disaster -- Guns, ...

Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death, life and ...