Night had settled upon the roof of the world. With a jingling of harness and the clipclop of hooves, a small caravan wound slowly up the 17,000-ft. pass. Ahead lay the snowy summits of the Himalayas, ...

The Dalai Lama will address a major three-day gathering of Buddhist religious figures this week ahead of his 90th birthday, ...

The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, ...

Tomorrow, March 17, is the anniversary of the Dalai Lama's 1959 escape from a Chinese communist attempt to kidnap him. This post tells the story; it is the fifth in a series on the Tibetan Uprising.

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DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Kelsang Damdul was just a low-ranking officer in the Tibetan army when he was part of a secret group who helped the Dalai Lama escape to India in 1959, under what he says ...