Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield on Wednesday. In Beijing, people crowded the Lama Temple at dawn while big crowds also ...

The history-soaked Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, peaceful Lama Temple and the Temple of Heaven ... while still dining deliciously close to Beijing’s bucket-list sites.

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A man holding incense sticks prays on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Lama Temple in Beijing on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) ...

THE country hopes the Dalai Lama can “return to the right path,” and is open to discussions about his future as long as certain conditions are met, Beijing said. China is open to talks about ...

Beijing regards the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in northern India for more than six decades, as a dangerous “splittist,” or separatist, and frowns on any engagement with him.

The doors of Santa Marta remain closed to the Dalai Lama. "Yet we would expect that after so long they would open for him too." In these nearly twelve years of pontificate, Bergoglio has ...