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In some of his public talks, His Holiness makes a joking observation of how Tibetans are so sharp (drungu) that they took the best of all religions from India, the warmest of clothes from Mongo

The honest and informed answer is - no. It would require a big leap of faith on the part of the Chinese to hope that such a high-level lama, who was a teenager when he fled, would

The US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Maria Otero, is on a week-long visit to India during which she will visit “Tibetan refugee settlements” among other things

As images of the protests in Cairo flood the Internet, China has prevented its 450 million Internet users from looking up "Egypt" in search engines. Chinese citizens have to accept a state-sanctioned version of events

China plans to develop three major mineral bases in Tibet in the coming five years amid reports that 102 types of deposits with an estimated value of USD 100 billion have been discovered in the region

Internet start-up Groupon was on the defensive as it faced outrage for running a Super Bowl advertisement that highlighted Tibet's woes to promote the online bargain site

The Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, has said that his deep-rooted relationship with India would not be affected by recent developments, including that of the Karmapa controv

The Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been listed by TIME magazine among "Top 25 Political Icons" of all time, along with India's Mahatma Gandhi, the fath

Two aides of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, sought anticipatory bail on Friday in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Thomar in Una town near Pun

In the West, the Tibetan religious leader Ogyen Trinley Dorje is admired for his youth (he's 25), his looks (he was once introduced at a U.S. event as "His Hotness") and his courage (as a teenager, he fled from Chinese-ruled Tibet on horseback)