Located high in the mountains of Sichuan, the Larung Wuming Buddhist Institute was founded in 1980 by an influential lama of the Nyingma sect and is widely regarded as the world's largest and most ...

Pema Dechen sat on a folding chair outside the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota waiting patiently for the razor to reach for scalp. She looked straight ahead, seeming not to acknowledge the ...

(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven. (RNS ...

The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...

OREGON (WKOW) -- The Wisconsin Tibetan Association took time Thursday to pray for the people suffering in Ukraine. On Thursday, officials reported the war in Ukraine has killed more than 2,000 people ...

Photos and videos surfacing on Chinese social media show a heavy security presence at the annual Monlam Prayer Festival at Kumbum monastery, in a region with a large Tibetan population in China's ...

The report of Sunday's march — the latest incident in an apparent spike in acts of defiance against Chinese rule — comes amid tensions over harsh security measures authorities set up ahead of the ...

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A Santa Fe Buddhist said he’s shocked he has to defend his religious rights in the United States.Tenzin Digkhang said he takes his religion very seriously.“I know I have my rights,” he said.His family ...