The Dalai Lama is Tibet’s spiritual leader. He fled in 1959 after China’s occupation, and has worked to uphold Tibet’s culture, religion and language from exile since then. Vincent Kessler ...

The Dalai Lama's successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan ...

The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan ...

Despite China’s attempts at interference, Tibetans will have their own Dalai Lama and hold onto their dream of a free Tibet.

The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising, has long denied China’s assertion that he’s seeking Tibetan independence. He says he wants only enough autonomy to protect ...

Like China’s ruling party, the Walt Disney Company operated in five-year plans, and in the mid-1990s, a crucial part of that plan was generating more business overseas — and even, eventually ...

High-pressure tactics employed by China’s ruling Communist Party appear to be finding success in separating Tibetans from their traditional Buddhist culture and the influence of the Dalai Lama.

READ: Dalai Lama apologizes for asking boy to suck his tongue China brands the Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for keeping alive the Tibetan cause, as a “separatist”.

In 2012, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s meeting with the Dalai Lama was strongly condemned by the Chinese. “They didn’t get ministerial visits from China for a year,” says Brown.

The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is steeped in ancient tradition, but as the current spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism marks his 87th birthday, China is looking to assert its influence.