The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking ... singing in the Tibetan language. The youngest was 4, the oldest 18. Some of them were born here ...

The annual spectacle known as "the basking of Buddha," or the "sunbathing Buddha festival," is part of the Monlam prayer festival, a magnet for pilgrims from the Tibetan-populated areas of China.

The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) on Tuesday organised a prayer session at the main Tibetan temple in Dharamshala to honour Kalon Trisur Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the 14th Dalai Lama ...

THE chief attraction which the Tibetan language possesses for the western reader is that it is the Latin of Central Asia, and preserves in its bulky literature the old-world lore and vestiges of ...

The community gathered at the Deer Park Buddhist Monastery for the service. The prayer service coincides with the Tibetan Lunar New Year celebration. "It doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, ...

Rinpoche concurs. "During the Cultural Revolution, they damaged a lot of ancient prayer books," he says. "Many are still missing, and the older monks are dying. There are fewer monks today." ...

This attractive package consists of an illustrated hardcover and a long, colorful Tibetan prayer flag, packaged together in a lovely gift box. While the concept of this gift combination is similar ...

The Tibetan parliament-in-exile has condemned the firing by Chinese police on Tibetans celebrating the birthday of their spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, in Tawu region in eastern Tibet on July 6.

BEIJING Defiant Buddhist monks banned from marking a key Tibetan New Year prayer festival marched in protest in Chinas southwest, rights groups and officials said. It was the latest resistance to ...

Following the tradition, people here went early in the morning to hang new prayer flags on top of mountains and their house roofs to celebrate New Year under the Tibetan calendar. (Xinhua/Jigme ...

Beginning in April, on first Sundays, the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center at 93 Angen Road in Washington, 908-689-6080, will hold a morning prayer and meditation session in the temple.

As per Tibetan lunar calendar, annual prayer is organised in the final month. Tibetan Buddhists organised a prayer for world peace. The prayers are said to dispel evils of previous year.