The 14th Dalai Lama was born in 1935 in Taktser, a small village in northeastern Tibet located in the province of Amdo. He was named Lhamo Thondup and came from a farming family. At the age of two, he ...

Xizang's population grew from 1.228 million in 1959 to 3.74 million by 2025, a staggering threefold increase. Life expectancy ...

In March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama left the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in the dead of night to flee from Mao Zedong’s communist regime. Over the course of the next seven decades, the Dalai Lama has ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death. But as he ...

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and head of the government-in-exile of Tibet, which has been under Chinese authority for more than half a century. He ...

NEW DELHI, June 4 (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama will receive medical treatment on his left knee in New Delhi this month, his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (C) prepares to attend a long-life prayer offering ceremony at the Main Tibetan Temple in ...

The Dalai Lama is going to announce details of how he is to be succeeded this week, as he prepares to turn 90 years old. Traditionally, a new Dalai Lama – leader of 7.7 million Tibetan Buddhists, ...

India will be a in a particularly tough situation if the reincarnation were identified within India or in the free world ...