The Dalai Lama said Wednesday there will be a successor after his death. But China insists that it alone has the authority to ...

Amid renewed tensions with China over the issue of succession, it is interesting to know how the term ‘Dalai Lama’ came to be ...

In Tibetan Buddhism, it's acceptable for a Dalai Lama to reincarnate outside China or Tibet. The 4th Dalai Lama was born in Mongolia in 1589, and the 6th, Tsangyang Gyatso, was born in 1682 in the ...

A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organisation he has set up have the authority to identify ...

The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity.