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Tibetans in Massachusetts celebrate 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday

Sacred Spaces

Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama announced that he will be reborn after he dies, and that the Tibetan Buddhist community based in India that he leads will have sole authority in finding his reincarnation. As The World’s Matthew Bell reports, this sets the stage for a dispute with China.

Immersive shrine installation comes with chanting and controversy

Sacred Nation
Traveling monks work on a sand mandala at Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois.

Tibetan monks on tour in US as China continues to restrict religion in Tibet

Sacred Nation
Exile Tibetan booth officials look at a green book, a necessary document for Tibetans to vote, during the second and final round of voting to elect their parliamentarians and the leader of the Central Tibetan Administration

Tibetans in exile elect a new president

Elections

The US draws a red line, saying China cannot name Tibetan Buddhism’s next leader

China's red flag is show flying on a pole with the large white facade of the Potala Palace in the distance.

China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

Conflict & Justice

China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region that rights groups have branded coercive labor.

A white woman holds up a drawing of a plant next to a Chinese woman sitting at a table together

Confucius Institutes push back against Pompeo’s assertion they should close

US-China relations

The Trump administration has taken aim at Chinese cultural programs called Confucius Institutes housed within US universities. Administrators are caught in the middle, and some say academic freedom is at risk. 

A woman stands at a podium. Behind her is a sign that says "Tibet will be free."

On the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising, activists say the ‘resistance spirit’ is still alive

It’s been 60 years since the Tibetan uprising in Lhasa prompted the Dalai Lama to flee his palace.

Padma Angdu was anointed as a Tibetan Buddhist rinpoche, or enlightened being, in 2010. He was 6 years old at the time.

Reincarnating as an enlightened being isn’t easy. Especially when you’re 6 years old.

Belief

After death comes for a rinpoche — a Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, imbued with supernatural powers — he or she may choose to reincarnate as an infant. Such was the extraordinary fate of a child named Padma Angdu, identified as a rinpoche in 2010. He was only 6 years old. A new documentary follows him as he grows into his destiny.

Kilian Jornet climbing Mount Everest

Catalan climber tops Mount Everest twice in one week

Sports

Kilian Jornet says his second climb in a week “opens up a new realm of possibilities in alpinism and I’m really happy to have done it.”