Despite being a stateless monk with no official power, the Dalai Lama remains one of China’s most persistent challenges. As ...

By David Bolling Among the compelling excuses espoused by American policy makers and warmongers for the extraordinary cost in lives, treasure and domestic tranquility invested in the Vietnam War, was ...

Despite a migrant population of 700,000 — including 250,000 Vietnamese, who are largely Buddhists, followed by 240,000 ...

Southeast Asia is a region steeped in spiritual history and cultural richness, and nowhere is this more evident than in its ...

The Tibetan spiritual leader said that his lineage would continue, and that China would have no say about his successor.

For Kashmir’s Shias, and now increasingly some Sunnis, the war in West Asia is not a remote spectacle. It is intimately ...

The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday his Gaden Phodrang Trust would have the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he will have a successor after his death, continuing a centuries-old tradition that has become a flashpoint in the struggle with China’s Communist Party over Tibet’s ...

The aging spiritual leader is looking to prevent Beijing from taking advantage of a power vacuum. But there is pressure to preserve a core element of Tibetan Buddhism.

Taiwan’s international rating on freedom of religion is undisputedly very high. The 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom, published by the U.S. Department of State, also noted Taiwan’s const ...

YUEN FOONG KHONG is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of ...