When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (RNS) A Tibetan Buddhist nun has quietly founded one of the only U.S. monasteries where women -- and soon men -- can become fully ordained. Since its founding in 2003, 10 nuns have been ...

Tsewang Jigme is among the artists toiling to safeguard the unique cultural heritage in Nepal’s remote Upper Mustang region on the Tibetan plateau, which escaped the ravages of the Cultural Revolution ...

Reporting from Beijing — A large Tibetan Buddhist academy tucked in a remote valley of Sichuan province is under threat of large-scale destruction by Chinese authorities for the second time in 15 ...

A group of Tibetan monks from India are in the middle of a weeklong visit to the Island, where they are carefully ...

When Namkyi was 15 years old, she and her sister Tenzin Dolma dressed in traditional Tibetan attire and began a protest ...

Limited staff, tight budgets and age have taken a toll on Staten Island’s Jacques Marchais Museum, but a major renovation is now being planned. By Sophie Haigney Jacques Marchais, an art dealer and ...

During a graduate exam for Nyingma sect lamas, a Tho Ram Pa program student (sitting in the center) of the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China is challenged by four Buddhist scripture ...

A top Tibetan Buddhist leader who remained missing for about eight months after being detained by police was possibly killed in custody, says a report. The authorities in Golog Tibetan Autonomous ...

CIZHONG, China (Reuters) - Ruanna, a 77-year-old Tibetan woman living in a remote Chinese village overlooking the Mekong river, says her Catholic faith has never been in doubt. "Since birth, I have ...

CIZHONG, China (Reuters) - Ruanna, a 77-year-old Tibetan woman living in a remote Chinese village overlooking the Mekong river, says her Catholic faith has never been in doubt. "Since birth, I have ...