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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 ...

Thondup became the second-most influential figure in the Tibetan community, after the Dalai Lama. From 1991 to 1993, he served as chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in the northern ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI—Speculation is focusing on who will succeed the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, who turns 90 in July. The head of Tibetan Buddhism, who is in exile in the northern Indian ...

The Dalai Lama published a book Tuesday that he says is a "framework for the future of Tibet", to guide compatriots in relations with Beijing after his death. China -- which says Tibet is an ...

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.

Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the Dalai Lama who helped the CIA mount an ill-fated armed uprising against the Communist ...

Domestic outlets cover everything from Finland's failure to teach Finnish to immigrant children to the record number of women candidates in the upcoming municipal elections, and CGE Mannerheim's ...