The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

The advocacy group International Campaign for Tibet in a recent article by ‘International Campaign for Tibet’ highlighted the ...

In the Dalai Lama’s new memoir, Voice for the Voiceless, the spiritual leader directly addresses Tibet’s struggle for ...

Dolma Tsering Teykhang, the Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, highlighted the importance of preserving ...

The city of Lhasa, once the heart of Tibetan civilisation and the spiritual seat of the Dalai Lama, has been systematically ...

By comparing these two seemingly unrelated historical contexts, the discussion, moderated by Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell, will shed light on ...

It is the only one in the geographic space in which it is located that has kept religion out of governance. That was not supposed to happen since it was religion that led to the founding of the state ...

In The Man in the High Castle (1962), author Philip K Dick imagines an alternative history where the Axis powers win the ...

The rise of China as a dominant economic and strategic force adds complexity, creates competition, and "hampers" India's ...

People in a coastal province in China are convinced that the actress who played a popular deity in a TV series is actually the real thing and kneel before photos of her. China’s top political ...

Many of us are advocates for much of what the West has brought to the world, but the portion of its foundations that are anti ...

General Zia refused to move in that direction. China was the only neighbour that did not adopt religion as the basis of governance. Afghanistan, Iran and increasingly India are now relies states.