The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje ...

DHARAMSALA – In his newly released autobiography, Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People, the Dalai Lama declared that his successor will be ...

Sometimes, we assume that freedom is all about breaking rules or chasing some wild and rebellious dreams, right? But do you know what freedom actually is? It’s finally feeling at home with yourself ...

In my role as the Dalai Lama, I was trying to mitigate the disaster for my people. On October 26, 1951, approximately three thousand troops from the People’s Liberation Army’s Eighteenth Route ...

to a lavish document full of expressions of mutual respect and pledges that Tibet could rule itself. Mao told the Dalai Lama that he should feel free to get in touch, anytime. “The promises ...

The Dalai Lama has declared that his successor will be born outside of China to ensure freedom from Chinese control, escalating the ongoing succession dispute. China's government maintains it has ...

The 14th Dalai Lama has released a new book in which he addresses some of the key challenges facing his occupied country Tibet, including the matter of his succession. The book, Voice of the Voiceless ...

Lhasa, Tibet – On a cold, tense night in March 1959, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, made a daring escape from Lhasa, Tibet, narrowly avoiding what could have been a Chinese-orchestrated abduction ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The fourteenth Dalai Lama has written scores of books, most of them about ...

There was a time not too long ago when Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was optimistic about returning to his homeland. Now, 66 years after his dramatic escape from Lhasa, Tibet, his recently ...