(RNS) — As the Tibetan Buddhist leader ages, a confrontation with China over the legitimacy of his successor looms.

(RNS) — One of the spiritual teacher’s great gifts was his great willingness to share his imperfections with the world and his ability to laugh about them.

(RNS) — Tibetan Buddhism’s leader recently called to end the prominence of reincarnated lamas, a model for religious leaders who cling to entrenched modes of thinking.

c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Ismail Royer remembers the sunny fall afternoon seven years ago when a songbird heard in a suburban St. Louis park transformed him from a lapsed Catholic into a believing Muslim. Royer heard the sound that changed his life as he and a Muslim friend sat in Manchester Park […]