In August, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number — gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in northern India to take various levels of the “geshema” ...

Chinese scholars will soon have collected and cleaned up all the ancient lections of Sagya, one of the four leading sects of Tibetan Buddhism, as part of an effort to protect and learn more about the ...

On April 26, China’s Foreign Ministry was asked to comment on a U.S. State Department statement urging China to disclose the whereabouts of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. On May 14, 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, ...

(The Conversation) — Religious beliefs and modern biology sometimes seem to collide. But exploring those ideas with compassion and an open mind can lead to deeper learning across cultures. (The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The library’s Tibet Journal, a scholarly quarterly journal in English, first appeared in 1975. It features articles on Tibetan ...

How did a fruit farmer’s son in New York’s Hudson Valley come to be a graduate student in University of Colorado Boulder’s Religious Studies Department, studying Tibetan Buddhist texts? As an ...

Dharamshala, India/Hong Kong (CNN) — The Dalai Lama has announced that he will have a successor after his death, continuing a centuries-old tradition that has become a flashpoint in the struggle with ...