Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, offers blessings to his followers at his Himalayan residence in the northern hill town of Dharamshala, India, December 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh
Asia

Dalai Lama seeks to allay health concerns as succession planning looms

"According to my dream, I may live 110 years," said the 89-year-old spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists when asked about his health and how he was feeling

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Patron of Children in Crossfire, gestures during a press conference in Londonderry, Northern Ireland September 11, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
USA

Senior US officials meet with Dalai Lama in New York

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, arrives at his hotel in New York City, US, June 23, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
USA

Dalai Lama arrives in New York on trip for medical treatment

The Dalai Lama gestures before speaking to students during a talk at Mumbai University February 18, 2011/ Reuters
World+Biz

The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader, celebrates 88th birthday

The Dalai Lama gestures before speaking to students during a talk at Mumbai University February 18, 2011/ Reuters
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Dalai Lama apologises after video asking boy to 'suck my tongue'

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama attends a press meeting in Malmo, Sweden September 12, 2018. Photo: Reuters
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Dalai Lama: China's leaders 'don't understand variety of cultures'

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to India Atul Keshap deliver remarks to civil society organization representatives in a meeting room at the Leela Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Risking China's anger, Blinken meets representative of Dalai Lama in India

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama addresses a gathering at the Thupsung Dhargyeling Monastery in Dirang, in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Anuwar Hazarika
South Asia

Indian PM Modi greets Dalai Lama on birthday in rare phone call

This photograph provided by Office of his Holiness the Dalai Lama shows the Tibetan spiritual leader receiving a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine at Zonal Hospital in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Office of the his holiness the Dalai Lama via AP)
Coronavirus chronicle

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama gets vaccine shot

The US Congress has passed a law that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to select the successor to His Holiness Dalai Lama.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)
South Asia

Trump signs Tibet bill to pre-empt Chinese move in Dalai Lama succession

The US Congress has passed a law that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to select the successor to His Holiness Dalai Lama.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)
South Asia

US Congress stings China with new Tibet law on the next Dalai Lama

Paramilitary police officers swap positions during a change of guard in front of Potala Palace in Lhasa, during a government-organised tour of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, October 15, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
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Tibetan leader welcomes US bill that reaffirms rights

The Dalai Lama gestures before speaking to students during a talk at Mumbai University February 18, 2011/ Reuters
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Dalai Lama marks 85th birthday with album of mantras