The CCP is expected to try to hijack the succession, as it did in 1995 when it put up its own candidate for Panchen Lama, the ...

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader issues a landmark announcement as he turns 90, ending years of uncertainty.

The search for the next Dalai Lama will not fully break from tradition, a process in which high-ranking lamas rely on dreams, divinations and whispers of oracles to locate the “reincarnation” of ...

The contested appointment of the Panchen Lama is widely seen by experts and the Tibetan exile community as Beijing’s attempt to pave the way for the passing – and reincarnation – of the ...

Beijing’s Panchen Lama is seen as an imposter by many Tibetans at home and in exile. ... “For us, the one recognized by the Dalai Lama, born in exile, is the real one.

Hong Kong (CNN) — A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more ...

A young Tibetan who vanished two decades ago after he was chosen by the Dalai Lama as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism is "living a normal life" and does not want to be disturbed, a ...

The Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, has won broad praise since taking up the position two decades ago in what was a great victory against separatists ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party rule, sustaining the cause from exile even as an ...

Following the 1989 death of the 10th Panchen Lama, the second most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama named Tibetan child Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as his colleague’s reincarnation.