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 ...

China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming ...

Monks at a Chinese temple reportedly called the cops on a man who got trapped inside their temple’s wishing pool while trying to take coins donated by visitors. The incident occurred at the Phoenix ...

Around 700 delegates from 39 countries are expected to attend the event next month. The US will have the largest delegation, ...

Chinese authorities have ordered all monks and nuns whose residences were recently demolished at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy ...

(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 ...

Every Saturday evening, the monks of Wenshu Monastery in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu offer visitors of all faiths a seat at their table. The sumptuous — and free — spread comprises dozens ...

Hundreds of Tibetan monks have taken to the streets of Lhasa in the biggest protest against communist rule in almost two decades, it emerged on Tuesday. The show of defiance — which took place on the ...

Young Tibetan Monks in Kardze. Throughout greater Tibet, objection to Chinese rule have become increasingly nihilistic.Shiho Fukada for TIME There are no flowers or memorials to mark the spot where ...