The title of "Dalai" first came from the third Dalai Lama Soinam Gyamco. "Gyamco" means the Sea in the Tibetan language, which is contained in the name of Dalai Lama of later generations.

Key events in this extraordinary story include recognition, at the age of four, as the 13th reincarnation of the first Dalai Lama who ruled Tibet from 1391-1474 - and being awarded the 1989 Nobel ...

Five years ago, when I visited the Dalai Lama at his monastery in Manali, he told me that he did not look favorably on ...

In the 1950s, when China first sent troops in, Tibet was poor. Now it is an economic behemoth and its growing influence has in many ways overshadowed the Dalai Lama's cause. There was a time when ...

Kindness is indeed a universal virtue; few would disagree that the world would be a better place if there were more acts of ...

The Panchen Lamas and Dalai Lamas consider themselves “spiritual friends,” but the relationship between the two figures and their communities has hardly been smooth. The latest smear campaig ...

As a way of nudging me out of this impersonal perspective, the Dalai Lama has told me many times, “Remember that you are one of 8 billion.” By this, he means two things. First, no one is any ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine while urging others eligible to "take this injection". "This is very very helpful, very good," he ...

Mesfin Fekadu, music writer, New York, gave AP a six-hour beat on all competitors with a report that the Dalai Lama would release his first-ever album; the story was picked up by Rolling Stone, ...

Dalai Lama wrote to congratulate Omar Abdullah on his coalition's success in the recent Assembly Polls and his appointment as ...

The Dalai Lama turns 89 on Saturday and China insists it will choose his successor as Tibet's chief spiritual leader. That has the Medium of Tibet's Chief State Oracle contemplating what might ...

From that I got interested in ethnic minority policies more generally because there was a debate in China about them. Some said preferential policies and ethnic policies were not broad enough and ...