Dalai Lama Meets Indian Guard From 1959 Flight From Tibet
The Dalai Lama has come face to face with an Indian soldier who guarded him almost 60 years ago as ...
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Dalai Lama Reunited With Guard Who Welcomed Him To India
The Dalai Lama has had an emotional reunion with the Indian border guard who escorted him as he fled his ...
Top Tibetan Lama Abandons Monkhood To Marry Old Friend
A senior Tibetan lama at the centre of a long-running row over one of Buddhism's most important titles has abandoned ...
UN Security Council Adopts Resolution Protecting Heritage
The United Nations Security Council on Friday strengthened its protection of global cultural heritage sites threatened by armed conflicts, saying ...
Australian Test Skipper Steve Smith Rubs Noses With Dalai Lama
Australian skipper Steve Smith revealed Friday his team held a relaxing session with the Dalai Lama where they learnt about ...
Ancient, Near-Pristine Buddha To Make Kabul Museum Debut
Having withstood time, the elements, looters and war, a spectacular Buddha restored and removed from one of Afghanistan's most dangerous ...
Hate Speech Myanmar Monk Banned From Sermons By Buddhist Council
A Myanmar monk infamous for his bilious anti-Muslim tirades has been banned from giving sermons for a year by the ...
Red-Faced Thai Cops Admit Monk ‘may Have Escaped’ Temple Siege
An elderly monk wanted for massive fraud may have escaped a three-week siege of his temple, Thai police admitted Saturday, ...
Thai Police End Search of Temple Without Finding Monk
Thai police ended their search of Thailand's biggest temple on Friday after laying siege to it for more than three ...
Thai Monks and Cops In Bizarre Temple Turf War
One side of the temple gate is blocked by cops in blue, the other by rows of bald men in ...
US University’s Invite To Dalai Lama Sparks Uproar
A California university's decision to have the Dalai Lama speak at this year's commencement ceremony has sparked uproar among Chinese ...
Thai Cops Find Tunnel In Manhunt For Elderly Monk
Thai cops have uncovered secret tunnels running underneath a space-age temple of the controversial Dhammakaya Buddhist sect, as their manhunt ...
Thai Police Raid Dhammakaya Temple In Hunt For Wanted Monk
Thai police have begun searching a Buddhist temple complex in a bid to arrest an influential monk wanted over alleged ...
Cops Surround Scandal-Hit Buddhist Temple After PM Order
Soldiers and police surrounded a scandal-hit Buddhist temple on Bangkok's outskirts early Thursday in apparent preparation for a raid to ...
China Villagers ‘beat the Buddha’ For A Good Harvest
Beating a rock statue of Buddha to wish for a good new year and an abundant harvest, villagers in China's ...
Steven Seagal Now Officially A Russian Citizen
Although we’ve said before that 2016 has been a weird, horrible year for a lot of people, it’s still not ...
Putin Presents Russian Passport To Hollywood Actor Seagal
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U. S. actor Steven Seagal on Friday and said he hoped ...
Leonard Cohen Of Canada Dies At 82
The news was announced on his official Facebook page, but no details about the cause of death were given. “It ...
US Actor Steven Seagal Given Russian Citizenship By Putin
US actor Steven Seagal has been given Russian citizenship, the Kremlin says. President Putin signed a decree to make the ...
What We Need To Know About Voices In Our Head
What we need to know about voices in our head Buddhism calls the inner voice the internal chattering monkey By ...