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 ...
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 ...
From Beijing to Havana, the holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea ... prays on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Lama Temple in Beijing on ...
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 ...