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 exiled spiritual leader’s latest book, “Voice for the Voiceless”, was released earlier this month. In the book, he says that despite two series of dialogues (1979-1989 and 2002-2010), Beijing did ...

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 ...

From the optimism of Panchsheel to the shadows of the 1962 war, the story of the Dragon and the Elephant is one of trust ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...