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 Army ...

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 ...

In the twilight of his life, Tibet’s spiritual leader casts an eye on the past and his struggle with the Chinese regime.

He added that Chinese Communists, who explicitly reject religion, including the idea of past and future lives, should not ...

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled at the age of 23 to India with thousands of other Tibetans in 1959 after a failed uprising against the rule of Mao Zedong’s Communists. China brands the ...

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 region he ...

The spiritual leader, who escaped from Lhasa on March 17, 1959, has written a new book in which is he is unapologetically ...

Party spokeswoman Mao Ning addressed the issue at length during a press conference on Tuesday, calling the Dalai Lama a “political exile engaged in separatist activities under the guise of ...

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has hinted his successor may be born outside China, setting the scene for intense ...

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 ...

Freedom Trail’ commemorated the historic escape of the 14th Dalai Lama from Tibet in 1959, concluded on Saturday at Dzongtse Pungteng ...

The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader said in his new book. This is the first time the 89-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader has explicitly said that his ...