The doors of Santa Marta remain closed to the Dalai Lama. "Yet we would expect that after so long they would open for him too." In these nearly twelve years of pontificate, Bergoglio has ...
Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield on Wednesday. In Beijing, people crowded the Lama Temple at dawn while big crowds also ...
Millions of Chinese people celebrated Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, on Wednesday. The Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival in China, falls on 29 January 2025, which marks the ...
A woman in a traditional costume prays on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Lama Temple in Beijing on ... the Lunar New Year. From Beijing to Havana, the holiday -- known as the Spring ...
Successive Sri Lankan governments have declined requests by the Dalai Lama to visit the country and worship at the Temple of the Tooth ... for independence from Beijing. On the eve of the President’s ...
Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to ...
Similar scenes played out after daylight in the morning at the Lama Temple in Beijing, a historic Tibetan ... is also a time for “temple fairs” in China, with performances by lion dance ...