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.

Tibetan Buddhism conjures up images of prayer wheels, mandalas and prostration, but there is one little-known, indispensable item: a calendar. Aside from some textbooks, the Tibetan Annual Almanac is ...

The 14th Dalai Lama marks his 90th birthday on July 6, 2025, with which he is also the longest reigning one in the lineage of all the Dalai Lamas so far. His life has not only highlighted Tibetan ...

Buddhist nuns at a teaching session of the Tibetan Spiritual Leader The Dalai Lama during the sixth day of the Kalachakra Festival in Bodhgaya in January 2012. | AFP In August 2025, 161 Tibetan ...