The idea that eliminating the United States Institute of Peace would benefit taxpayers is extremely shortsighted and ill ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Dalai Lama's dangerous escape into India on March 31, 1959 fleeing Communist Chinese troops seizing Tibet, prompted the CIA's secret financing, training, arming, and parachute ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The fourteenth Dalai Lama has written scores of books, most of them about ...

NEW DELHI — 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 ...

In my role as the Dalai Lama, I was trying to mitigate the disaster for my people. On October 26, 1951, approximately three thousand troops from the People’s Liberation Army’s Eighteenth Route ...

The Dalai Lama has declared that his successor will be born outside of China to ensure freedom from Chinese control, escalating the ongoing succession dispute. China's government maintains it has ...

Tapir Gao warns that China's proposed dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River poses a severe threat to downstream regions and could ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, six leading children’s hospices are coming together to shine a global spotlight on children’s ...

Among them, in disguise, was Tibet’s temporal and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. When the Dalai Lama fled his Himalayan homeland, he was in his early 20s. Early this July he will turn 90.