The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed popular uprising against Chinese control, and relocated to northern India, where he set up a government-in-exile in Dharamshala. In 1989, he was ...

NEW DELHI – India has firmly thrown its weight behind the Dalai Lama’s exclusive right to decide his successor, opposing ...

The exchange highlighted how the process of identifying the next Dalai Lama could add fresh tensions to relations between the ...

The Ministry of External Affairs said the Indian government does not comment on religious beliefs or practices, in response ...

A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify ...

Chinese Ambassador Xu Feihong said on X that the reincarnation of Tibetan spiritual leaders follows strict, centuries-old ...

Tenzin Gyatso,  the 14th Dalai Lama, was only 23 years old when he fled Tibet in March 1959 into China. His arduous journey, which started from Lhasa where he disguised himself as a Chinese soldier, ...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile on Friday strongly criticised China's interference in ...

Despite being a stateless monk with no official power, the Dalai Lama remains one of China’s most persistent challenges. As ...

Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...