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

An exiled Tibetan holds prayer flags called “lungta,” or wind horse, to be tied on tall posts on the third day of the Tibetan New Year, in Dharmsala, India. Tibetans believe the Buddhist prayers ...

The 14th Dalai Lama attended a long life prayer ceremony in Dharamshala marking his 90th birthday. Over 5,000 people, including monks and foreign devotees, gathered at the Tsuglagkhang Temple for the ...

PLAIN TWP. − The desire for peace is universal. That was the message conveyed this week at Canton Country Day School, which played host to a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks. Their visit to Stark ...

The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...

You can see them pretty much around any corner in Boulder: Bright, primary colored squares of cloth strung together, floating in the wind or gently resting on porch railings. These are Tibetan prayer ...

During my first-ever visits to Dharamshala and Ladakh, I was pleasantly struck by the strings of coloured flags adorning almost every place. Upon enquiring from one of the Buddhist monks, I got to ...

(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven. (RNS ...

Ethnic Tibetan monks walk in a procession to display a giant 'thangka', a sacred painting on cloth, on a hill Credit: REUTERS Ethnic Tibetan monks and pilgrims display the sacred painting Credit: ...