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 ...

Hollywood star Richard Gere threw his weight behind the Dalai Lama’s bold succession plan on Thursday, urging China to take ...

The museum has been accused of wanting to “erase the existence of Tibet”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Pro-Tibetan groups are suing the Musée Guimet in Paris, the French capital's best known Asian art museum, over its decision ...

The Tibetan spiritual leader said that his lineage would continue, and that China would have no say about his successor.

Tibet was struck with a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on Tuesday. ... Nepal and northern India are often hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

The Sindhupalchowk and Kavrepalanchowk district authorities have issued an alert due to expected heavy rainfall from Tibet, urging locals to remain vigilant, especially those near rivers. With ...

In 2015, a quake in Nepal with a magnitude of 7.8 killed nearly 9,000 people. In Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, residents streamed out of their homes in the morning as the earthquake rattled buildings.

How New Yorkers from Nepal, Tibet share their traditions with the city 02:49. Two communities from the Himalayan region are part of the fastest growing immigrant populations in New York City.

A Buddhist "purification ritual" will be held on June 15 to seek the forgiveness of the locals' guardian deity. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A century ago, British surveyors, measuring the towering Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border, found the world's highest mountain: 29,141 feet. Tibetan natives called it Chomolungma, meaning ...