A view of the Sakya Monastery in Sakya county, Xizang autonomous region. LI XIAOQIAN/FOR CHINA DAILY Since the launch of a digitization project for the protection and utilization of ancient texts in ...

At least two Tibetan monastic centres damaged by quake Unknown number of clergy hurt, monasteries affected Buddhist monasteries key to Tibet's cultural identity Some Tibetan monks in the past ...

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) marked the 14th anniversary of Tibetan monk Lobsang Lozin's death. The 18-year-old died after setting himself on fire in 2012 to protest what the CTA calls ...

A preliminary examination for the Geshe Lharampa is held at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang ...

The Tibetan Buddhist monks-in-exile offered special prayers to mark the 91st birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama at the Dorje Drak Monastery in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The monastic community and ...

DHARAMSHALA, India—For Jamyang Monlam, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk in Tibet, time was running out. He longed to meet the Dalai Lama, the 89-year-old religious leader revered by Tibetans but viewed by ...

BAIJNATH, India (AP) — Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound of drums, cymbals and long horns. Behind them ...

For centuries, monasteries have been built in remote mountains. Many of these sacred sites sit thousands of metres above sea ...

Chinese authorities have begun relocating a 19th-century Buddhist monastery in Tibet that is expected to be submerged underwater after the completion of the world’s tallest 3D-printed hydropower dam, ...

(Updates with raid details in paragraphs 2-3) BEIJING, April 17 (Reuters) - Armed police raided a monastery in northwest China and detained dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks on Thursday, following anti ...

Chinese authorities have sentenced two senior Tibetan monks to jail terms for their roles in a peaceful protest against the construction of a dam in a populated area of Sichuan province in Tibet. The ...

NEW YORK — The Dalai Lama has given Nicholas Vreeland, director of The Tibet Center in New York, a daunting new assignment. On July 6, Vreeland will be enthroned as the new abbot of Rato Monastery in ...