Tenzin Wangmo, a 20-year-old Tibetan nun, woke up to clear skies on October 17th. At around noon, she gathered the things she needed and walked down the valley to the bridge below her nunnery. Once there, she found a suitable spot, perhaps thumbed the prayer beads strung around her neck one final time, and began to shout. "Let His Holiness the Dalai Lama return to Tibet!", she cried. &qu...

For fans of Tibetan ecclesiastical politics, here’s an interesting rundown of the ongoing split between the Dalai Lama and mainstream Tibetan Buddhism and the Dorje Shugden sect, with Beijing as an increasingly interested player on the Dorje side. The interesting...

Rolling Stone has an interview with the Dalai Lama up in which he pitches a familiar line - You have said that Tibet’s survival will depend on China changing from within. Are you optimistic that will happen? … The first...

Future historians will study the complicated and arcane performance known as "Complaining About US Presidential Meetings With The Dalai Lama." Normally performed by a grateful ensemble of press spokesman and "independent" commentators, it may seem complicated and pointless to outsiders,...

Beijing accused the US of hurting bilateral ties and interfering in China's affairs after Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama in Washington

Barack Obama accused of 'grossly' interfering in China's affairs.

The dialogue stands to upset Beijing, which is already on edge about the Tibetan leader's Washington visit and the potential for a US default

…is on. The Dalai Lama has blurred the issues of succession and reincarnation. Asked if he would be the last, he told Der Spiegel: "The key factor should be the will of the Tibetan people ... Everything is possible: a...

I’m having trouble believing this: Empirical evidence confirms the existence of a trade-deteriorating effect of Dalai Lama receptions for the Hu Jintao era (2002-2008). However, we find at best weak evidence to support the existence of such an effect in...

An Israeli team experienced an unexpected victory in a debate at the UK's Cambridge University debating the proposition 'Israel is rogue state'. Cambridge University's prestigious debate club was established in 1815 and has seen luminaries like Winston Churchill, the Dalai Lama and Ronald Reagan debate the issues of the day. It's operated by Cambridge's Union Society,...