Dalai Lama formally installed as professor at Emory University
The Dalai Lama was formally installed as a professor at Emory University today as Tibetan monks wearing large moon-shaped, yellow hats chanted and played cymbals, gongs and horns.
Dalai Lama to speak in Ottawa, Toronto
The Dalai Lama’s visit to Canada next week will include a public appearance with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and public addresses at major stadiums in Ottawa and Toronto.
Dalai Lama’s Travels Around the World
President Bush applauds as the Dalai Lama arrives for the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress honored the spiritual leader of Tibet despite vocal objections from China, which has controlled the Dalai Lama’s homeland since 1959. In his address, the Dalai Lama repeated his call for automony, not separation from China. President Bush, who has met with the Dalai Lama privately, becomes the first sitting president to meet publicly with the religious leader, and also called for China to meet with the Dalai Lama and respect “religious freedom” in that country. (Evan Vucci/ AP Photo)
Forced silence in Tibet
On the bus from the airport to the city of Lhasa, the guide cautioned us to remember two things while in Tibet: don’t talk politics, and don’t mention the Dalai Lama.
Tibet activists set ablaze “China’s Ravan” on Dussehra
A group of Tibetan activists today burned down a demonized effigy of Chinese President Hu Jintao calling him “China’s Ravan” as a symbolic celebration of the last concluding
Rinpoche, Dalai Lama met in Tibet, reunited in U.S.
“He said a prayer of welcome,” Rinpoche said of their reunion. “I almost cried. I bowed down (to him). But he said no, don’t do that.” China had invaded Tibet in 1950. When the Tibetan resistance collapsed in 1959, the
Letters: Dalai Lama deserves medal
“Americans cannot look to the plight of the religiously oppressed and close our eyes or turn away,” US President George W Bush said during ceremonies presenting the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal
An Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Greatest happiness? Many occasions. One I remember, the next day of my escape from Tibet. So, local time, 10 p.m., I left, disguised as a soldier with a rifle. So, the more I walked
Tibetan monks beaten as police halt dissent
Hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist monks celebrating the award of a US honour to the exiled Dalai Lama have clashed with Chinese police, resulting in an unknown number of injuries and arrests.
Dalai Lama calls for religious tolerance during panel at US university
The Dalai Lama and other spiritual leaders called for followers of the world’s religions to work toward understanding rather than bicker over differences.