China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming ...

The fight over the 91-year-old’s reincarnation is becoming a test of China’s power over Tibet—and whether his spiritual ...

(The Conversation) — A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning. (The ...

The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...

Image of the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum of Art (photo by David de Armas, courtesy the Rubin Museum of Art) One of the oldest Tibetan art collections in the United States arrived ...

Over the weekend, I ran across this 2010 essay on Reason by Brendan O’Neill, who wrote about his frustration with the way Tibetan Buddhism is whitewashed in Western culture. O’Neill, by the way, is an ...

DHARAMSHALA, India — The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity. They also see him as the ...

From his many names to dishwasher woes, Beyond Life and Death shares things about the Chinese martial artist fans may not ...

Many Westerners before me have visited Tibet, popped into some monastery on a mountainside, and decided to stay there forever, won over by the brutally frugal existence eked out by Tibetan Buddhists.

The Buddhist scholar was a husband and father of five ...