Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama will be on a visit to the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh next week. He will visit Jammu on 14th July, and Ladakh on 15th July. This is the first such visit by the Buddhist leader in over 2 years from his…

DHARMSALA, India (AP) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama marked his 87th birthday on Wednesday by inaugurating a library and museum in his hillside Indian headquarters. He was cheered by a large number of followers, including American actor Richard Gere, a longtime disciple. Hundreds of schoolchildren, monks and local…

Penpa Tsering, the President of the Tibetan government in exile who is based out of India’s Dharamshala city, has said that the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Jai Ram Thakur, will be the chief guest at the birthday of his holiness Dalai Lama next week, which is on July 6.…

India should ask His Holiness The Dalai Lama if he would like to be our next President. Incredible and nearly impossible as the idea might sound, I still believe there is merit in our thinking about it. After the deeply distressing events of the past few months around issues of…

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An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a CNN tweet that refers to comments from the Dalai Lama as “white nationalist talking points.” Verdict: False There is no record of CNN publishing such a tweet. A CNN spokesperson confirmed the tweet is fabricated. Fact Check: The Dalai Lama is the…

New Delhi: The United States special coordinator for Tibetan issues, Uzra Zeya, is expected to travel to India and meet the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala next month – the first major contact between the two sides under the Biden administration. Zeya, the under secretary of state for civilian security, democracy…

China on Tuesday said a Tibetan boy, who disappeared 27 years ago after being incarnated as Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama is leading a “normal life” as a Chinese citizen and dismissed the US' concerns about his whereabouts as “political manipulation” to smear the country. “We firmly oppose the…

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama urged the public to reduce fossil fuel use during a meeting with activists to mark Earth Day, warning that the climate change crisis transcends national boundaries. The 86-year-old -- who is now living in exile in India's Dharamshala -- was presented Friday with a…

1/5 The Dalai Lama marked the 52nd Earth Day with a message saying that all creatures -- humans, animals, birds and insects -- want to live a “happy life” in their “collective existence." File Photo by Edwin Locke/UPI | License Photo April 22 (UPI) -- The Dalai Lama called for…