Time magazine referred to him as “the world’s next top lama.” Elle Magazine named him one of “25 People to Watch.” That’s a lot of responsibility and acclaim for a 22-year-old. But, in a sense, this ...

The seizure of considerable foreign currency including Yuan (Chinese) and possible funding from Beijing for constructing a monastery near Dharamsala has reignited the debate about the real claimant to ...

A cloud of suspicion hangs over the 17th Karmapa Ugyen Thinley Dorje, after he was questioned again by Indian investigating agencies over unaccounted money totaling over a million US dollars. A string ...

The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje last week visited Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims as a part of southern Tibet. Karmapa toured West Kameng district and preached to the Tibetans at ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The Dalai Lama is now here in the US for nearly a month of teaching across the country. He is the world’s best-known representative of Tibetan Buddhism, perhaps of all Buddhism.

The government is trying to get Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje return to India from his US visit after repeated insistence of the Buddhist community. The 32 year-old Karmapa had gone to US in May 2017 ...

The controversy around the current Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, following the stacks of foreign currency found at a monastery he controls, may well strengthen the claim of his rival Trinley Thaye ...

An important institution in the Tibetan religious setup, the Karmapa Lama is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu sect, one of the four sects of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the richest. An important ...

For a god, he is a nice young man. lean and assured, dressed in red and gold, the Karmapa Lama is a scholar-prince greeted with bows wherever he treads. He switches between Chinese and Tibetan ...

On his first ever visit to Europe, the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist figure after the Dalai Lama, the Karmapa, talks about being taken from his family in childhood, his exile and the demands of his ...