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Trip also reinforced Vatican’s solidarity with Japan’s quest for peace, created fresh avenues for cultural dialogue ...

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

The Tibetan Buddhist leader, who turns 90 on Sunday, appears concerned that Beijing will sweep in after his death to install ...

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

In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire extended its influence all the way to Southeast Asia, forging alliances and ...

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 ...