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He does not live at the Panchen Lama’s traditional seat, Tashi Lunpo monastery in Tibet’s Shigatse city, but in Beijing and visits Tibet for a few months each year to meet government officials and ...
Gyaltsen Norbu, appointed by China, seeks to promote Communist control over Tibetan Buddhism, which raises alarm among ...
Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist monk installed three decades ago by Beijing as the faith's No. 2 leader, the ...
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Why the West keeps getting Xi Jinping wrong
Every time Xi Jinping disappears, the Western rumour mill explodes—coup, illness, collapse. But the headlines rarely hold up. What if the real story isn’t about where Xi goes, but why the West keeps ...
The Russian Far East, which stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific, is vast and contains most of what China ...
My recent visit to China, which I wrote about in this column two weeks ago (See China and live), opened my eyes as to what it ...
“What's very clear is that there will end up being two Dalai Lamas,” said Tibet expert John Powers, a Lecturer in Buddhism Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Rumours and media stories of the Chinese president’s looming political demise have again surfaced, but with little more than ...
India’s explicit endorsement of the Dalai Lama’s announcement on the naming of his own successor marks a turning point—not just in the spiritual saga of Tibetan Buddhism, but in the geopolitics of ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping's absence from public view, appearing only twice in videos in over a month, amid a military purge and economic challenges, has fuelled speculation of a power shift in the ...
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India’s explicit endorsement of the Dalai Lama’s announcement on the naming of his own successor marks a turning point ~ not just in the spiritual saga of Tibetan Buddhism, but in the geopolitics of ...