China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian on Monday criticised the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s first Grammy win. He described the music industry award for an audiobook, narration and storytelling as “a tool for anti-China political manipulation.” Dalai Lama won in the category of Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, at the 68th…
China has objected to India’s efforts to celebrate a 17th-century Dalai Lama well known for his love of poetry, seeing it as an attempt to challenge Beijing’s territorial claims in the region and its control over Tibetan Buddhism, according to experts. India hosted an international symposium on the 6th Dalai Lama in Tawang, his birthplace,…
Washington, D.C. — Tibetan government-in-exile leader Penpa Tsering appealed to the global community last week to support the region, asserting that the Chinese government is orchestrating a calculated obliteration of Tibetan identity through pervasive suppression and cultural dismantlement. “They are trying to eliminate Tibetan identity altogether,” Tsering said during a National Press Club Headliners event on Oct. 29….
“Looking at your face, I now realise I must be very old too… Thank you very much… I’m very very happy to meet such an old member of the Assam Rifles who guarded and escorted me to India 58 years ago,” said the 81-year-old emotional and gracious Dalai Lama in 2017. He was meeting 79-year-old…
The ‘Golden Urn’ is at the heart of the ongoing controversy over how the next Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, will be chosen. While the 14th and current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, has asserted that the temporal institution will continue but his “reincarnation” will “not be chosen by China”, the Chinese government has hit…