Many Westerners before me have visited Tibet, popped into some monastery on a mountainside, and decided to stay there forever, won over by the brutally frugal existence eked out by Tibetan Buddhists.

Over the weekend, I ran across this 2010 essay on Reason by Brendan O’Neill, who wrote about his frustration with the way Tibetan Buddhism is whitewashed in Western culture. O’Neill, by the way, is an ...

Tibetan Buddhism conjures up images of prayer wheels, mandalas and prostration, but there is one little-known, indispensable item: a calendar. Aside from some textbooks, the Tibetan Annual Almanac is ...

Shangri-la is best-known as a fictional place—an idyllic valley first imagined by a British novelist in the 1930s—but look at a map and you’ll find it. Sitting at the foot of the Himalayas in ...

The 14th Dalai Lama marks his 90th birthday on July 6, 2025, with which he is also the longest reigning one in the lineage of all the Dalai Lamas so far. His life has not only highlighted Tibetan ...

India, March 10 -- In Tibet, monasteries are not just spiritual centers but repositories of culture, history, and identity. Yet under Xi Jinping's China, these traditional institutions have become ...

Associate Professor in Writing, Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland Since it was first published in English in 1927, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has proved to be the most ...

"This is a precious human life. And we should do what we can." Geshema Dawa Dolma, 43, recalls these words from the Dalai Lama during our phone interview. “Internal work," she adds, “is more important ...