For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai ...

A top Tibetan leader has defended The Dalai Lama after a video emerged on social media that showed him asking a child to suck his tongue. Penpa Tsering, head of Tibet’s government-in-exile, said the ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is preparing to address one of the most sensitive questions in global religion and geopolitics: who will succeed him. Ahead of his 90th birthday on July 6, he ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity. They also see him as ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) - The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has ...

The Dalai Lama was "unfairly labeled" for his "affectionate demeanor," a Tibetan leader told reporters Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.