This defies Beijing’s longstanding claim that it has the sole right to choose the next Dalai Lama. For China, controlling the ...

Beijing will not recognise the Dalai Lama’s proposal for a foreign successor and will deal with reincarnation according to Chinese law, according to an official scholar on Tibetan Buddhism.

The Dalai Lama has been in exile in India since the ... would be born outside China – a proposal swiftly rejected by Beijing which described him as “a political exile who uses religion as ...

The spiritual leader, who escaped from Lhasa on March 17, 1959, has written a new book in which is he is unapologetically candid about the Chinese leadership.

Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche drew the ire of China's communist regime for his promotion of Tibetan culture and Buddhism ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Dalai Lama's dangerous escape into India on March 31, 1959 fleeing Communist Chinese troops seizing Tibet, prompted the CIA's secret financing, training, arming, and parachute ...

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NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the ...

Mao told the Dalai Lama that he should feel free to get in touch, anytime. “The promises and assurances received in Beijing turned out to be empty,” the Dalai Lama writes. “During the many ...

The Dalai Lama has declared that his successor will be born outside of China to ensure freedom from Chinese control, escalating the ongoing succession dispute. China's government maintains it has ...