BEIJING Defiant Buddhist monks banned from marking a key Tibetan New Year prayer festival marched in protest in Chinas southwest, rights groups and officials said. It was the latest resistance to ...

BEIJINGBEIJING — Scores of Buddhist monks in southwestern China are likely under police lock-down after marching in protest over a decades-old ban on prayers during the Tibetan New Year, Tibetan ...

The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...

The blue flag symbolises the sky or heaven, representing purity and healing. Meditating on this flag is said to turn anger to wisdom. The white flag symbolises air and is said to turn ignorance to ...

A man hangs prayer flags on a mountain in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Jan. 24, 2023. Following the tradition, people here went early in the morning to hang new prayer flags on ...

Pema Dechen sat on a folding chair outside the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota waiting patiently for the razor to reach for scalp. She looked straight ahead, seeming not to acknowledge the ...

Photos and videos surfacing on Chinese social media show a heavy security presence at the annual Monlam Prayer Festival at Kumbum monastery, in a region with a large Tibetan population in China's ...

The Tibetan parliament-in-exile has condemned the firing by Chinese police on Tibetans celebrating the birthday of their spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, in Tawu region in eastern Tibet on July 6. The ...

Ethnic Tibetan monks walk in a procession to display a giant 'thangka', a sacred painting on cloth, on a hill Credit: REUTERS Ethnic Tibetan monks and pilgrims display the sacred painting Credit: ...

For some, bringing in the new year means praying for good things to come. Kristina Olsen ponders the reasons for prayer in her song, "Prayer Flags." She tells the story behind it in the latest edition ...