In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number – gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in northern India to take various levels of the ...

DHARAMSHALA, India—Nam Kyi, a young Tibetan activist, had been out of prison for only a few years when she was picked up by Chinese police in 2022. At the station in her hometown high in the Tibetan ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2000 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Tibetan Culture Beyond the Land of Snows took its ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Arjia Rinpoche receives guests at the Saka Dawa Duchen with photo of Takster Rinpoche in the background, June 11, 2025. Credit: Courtesy photo provided by Timothy A. Grose. Tibetan history was made ...

Ashwini Bhatia / AP The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been ...

Karma Tensum understands the Tibetan plight as well as anyone. He also knows how to affect change, even if it can only happen one small step at a time. Tensum, exiled from Tibet since 1959, will ...

(The Conversation) — A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning. (The ...