BEIJING: After years of search by top monks, a 4-year-old Tibetan boy was today chosen as the sixth ' Living Buddha ' in the Tibetan capital Lhasa through a lot-drawing system of two candidates ...

The Tibetan Book of Buddhist Proportions via Public Domain Review Born some time around the early 4th century B.C., Siddhārtha Gautama was a Nepalese monk and wandering sage whose teachings went ...

While "The Buddha Prince" was initially conceptualized by Kiefer in 2001, it was her collaboration with Tenzin Ngawang, the director of the music and dance, that moved the play forward.

Shakyamuni Buddha, 18th century Tibet, Tradition: Gelug, Pigments on cloth, Inv. 970/803. In this image Shakyamuni is dressed in the patchwork robe of a monk and is seated in meditation posture on a ...

WASHINGTON - The unique culture of the Tibetan people is well preserved in China and the claims that the Tibetan culture is nearing extinction are simply not true, a living Buddha of Tibetan ...

There were 5,500 monks at Drepung Gomang Monastery when China completed its invasion of Tibet in 1959. But when the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists, fled into exile, the ...

Tibetan Buddhism is a religion in exile, forced from its homeland when Tibet was conquered by the Chinese. This article is a detailed look at its history and practices.

China has sentenced a Tibetan Buddhist lama to more than eight years in jail for illegal possession of ammunition and embezzlement. The monk, Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, denies all charges, his lawyer ...