Dalai Lama attains icon status

He is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, born Lhamo Thondup, the exiled religious and political leader of Tibet and face of Buddhism in the West. The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner has become one of the world’s most recognizable icons

Buddhists in Germany back Myanmar’s monks

The Dalai Lama may understand the plight of Myanmar’s monks better than most — he and thousands of his followers fled to India in 1959 after China’s People’s Liberation Army brutally crushed a Tibetan uprising in Lhasa

Buddhism intertwines with Tibet’s long history

Throughout Tibet’s history there has been a frequent struggle for power between Tibetan rulers and their Chinese neighbors to the north, with both sides enjoying times of dominance. The history of Tibet can be traced back more than 2,000 years

Time to change policy on Burma

There is evidence that anti- China Tibetans are looking at Burma and possibly steeling themselves for a similar tilt at regime change, or at least, reform. Pro-Tibet independence media such as the New Delhi-based Phayul website are well aware