The sentence plods with bureaucratic understatement and doesn’t sound like the utterance of a living god. But these ten words mean the Dalai Lama, who turns 90 on Sunday, will have a successor; end ...

In an apparent snub to China, Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday asserted that the decision on the ...

The possibility of two competing Dalai Lamas - one recognised by the Tibetan community and the other by the Chinese state — ...

The Dalai Lama said Wednesday there will be a successor after his death. But China insists that it alone has the authority to ...

The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for ...

Amid renewed tensions with China over the issue of succession, it is interesting to know how the term ‘Dalai Lama’ came to be ...

A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify his successor as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a rare comment ...

DHARAMSHALA – As he approaches his 90th birthday, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, announced on July 1 ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after ...

Despite being a stateless monk with no official power, the Dalai Lama remains one of China’s most persistent challenges. As ...