Dalai Lama
China’s Tibet party boss urges senior monk to shun Dalai Lama
By Reuters — December 8, 2015
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Communist Party boss in Tibet has urged the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, to reject the Himalayan region’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, state media said on Tuesday. Controversy surrounds the position of the Panchen Lama since the boy the Dalai Lama named as the reincarnation of […]
Dalai Lama leaves US clinic after ‘routine’ health check
By Reuters — October 1, 2015
The 80-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate canceled planned visits in the United States in October at the advice of doctors who urged him to rest for several weeks.
China slams Dalai Lama as it marks 50 years ruling Tibet
By Reuters — September 8, 2015
The Global Times, a nationalist tabloid owned by the ruling Communist Party's official newspaper the People's Daily, called the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate a "cheater" and a "cruel ruler in exile."
Former Buddhist monk creates home for 85 abandoned children
By Kimberly Winston — August 17, 2015
(RNS) A new HBO documentary tells the story of Lobsang Phuntsok, who gave up being a Buddhist teacher in the U.S to start a remote orphanage.
At 80, the Dalai Lama is just getting started
By Lauren Markoe — July 9, 2015
(RNS) The Dalai Lama's work may increasingly engage him with people and events far removed from centers of Buddhist thought.
China’s Panchen Lama promises president he will uphold national unity
By Reuters — June 11, 2015
BEIJING (Reuters) A youth named by China as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, but reviled as a fake by many Tibetans, told President Xi Jinping he would strive to meet the Communist Party's expectations.
It’s up to Dalai Lama whether he’ll be reborn, Buddhist leader says
By Reuters — April 16, 2015
BEIJING (Reuters) The Karmapa is close to the Dalai Lama and after him is the most eminent Lama to have fled Chinese rule of Tibet, which Communist forces "peacefully liberated" in 1950.
Tibetan Buddhist leader blazes an innovative trail
By Joshua Eaton — March 27, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (RNS) Tibetan monk Ogyen Trinley Dorje has the support of the Dalai Lama and the majority of Tibetans, many of whom believe he will take over the Dalai Lama’s leadership role when the 79-year-old Nobel laureate dies.
China says Dalai Lama ‘profanes’ Buddhism by doubting his reincarnation
By Reuters — March 9, 2015
BEIJING (Reuters) Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a senior lama is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. China says the tradition must continue and it must approve the next Dalai Lama.
Obama condemns ‘distorted’ faith at National Prayer Breakfast
By Adelle M. Banks — February 5, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) “As people of faith we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion -- any religion -- for their own nihilistic ends,” Obama said.
UPDATE: China tells U.S. it’s against Obama meeting with Dalai Lama
By Reuters — February 1, 2015
The White House said Obama would deliver remarks at the Feb. 5 event about the importance of upholding religious freedom, and that the organizers had also invited the Dalai Lama.
In Washington state, a Tibetan Buddhist nun blazes a trail for other women to follow
By Tracy Simmons — January 27, 2015
NEWPORT, Wash. (RNS) A Tibetan Buddhist nun has quietly founded one of the only U.S. monasteries where women -- and soon men -- can become fully ordained. Since its founding in 2003, 10 nuns have been ordained there.
Dalai Lama says Pope Francis is unwilling to meet: ‘It could cause problems’
By Josephine McKenna — December 11, 2014
ROME (RNS) The Vatican has not had diplomatic ties with China since 1951, and China's Communist leaders object to meetings between heads of state and the Tibetan leader.
Protesters denounce the Dalai Lama as a ‘dictator’
By Lauren Markoe — March 6, 2014
(RNS) Many people think of the Dalai Lama as the personification of peace and love. But some Buddhist protesters say he's a hypocritical "dictator."
Asked to embrace capitalism, the Dalai Lama demurs
By Lauren Markoe — February 20, 2014
(RNS) Some of the brightest pro-business minds in the nation prodded the Dalai Lama to offer a warm endorsement of capitalism. They came up short.
