Dharamsala | Globally acclaimed Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Monday apologised to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his action may have caused. “His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras. He […]
Chandigarh | Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has been caught on video, kissing a young boy on the lips at a Buddhist event and telling him to “suck my tongue”. This has created a flutter, even prompting outrage, on the social media and micro blogging sites, raising question marks. For some, this is akin to […]
Lhasa | Chinese authorities in Tibet have detained a Tibetan man for possessing a picture of the Dalai Lama, Tibets foremost Buddhist spiritual leader who has been living in exile since 1959, media reports said. Karma Samdup of Sernye township of Nagchu county had a picture of the 14th Dalai Lama around his neck and […]
Dharamsala: Appealing to get themselves vaccinated, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who is revered as a ‘living god’, on Saturday took his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in a state-run hospital near his residence here in Himachal Pradesh, doctors said. After getting the jab, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate thanked the Central and the […]
New Delhi: A group of Chinese personnel in civilian clothes crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the sensitive Demchok area of Ladakh on July 6 and objected to the celebrations of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s birthday by locals, officials said here. Amid reports that there was fresh incursion across the border, the […]
Bengaluru : The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Friday regretted blaming former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and thanked him for sheltering thousands of exiled Tibetans after they fled from their motherland. “My statements (on Nehru) have created a controversy. I apologise if I said something […]
Bengaluru : Tibetans are ready to be a part of China if guaranteed full rights to preserve their culture, the Dalai Lama said on Friday. “Tibetans are not asking for independence. We are okay with remaining with the People’s Republic of China, provided we have full rights to preserve our culture,” the 83-year-old spiritual leader […]
Panaji : Had Jawaharlal Nehru not been self-centred, India and Pakistan would have been one country, the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday, adding that while Nehru was gifted with experience, mistakes do occur. “Mahatma Gandhi wanted to give the prime ministership to (Mohammad Ali) Jinnah. But Nehru refused. He was self-centred. He said, ‘I wanted […]
Dharamsala : Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama got emotional on Saturday as he embraced one of the five Assam Rifles troopers, Naren Chandra Das, who escorted him in India after his escape from Tibet. In 1959, as a young trooper Das, now 80, escorted the Dalai Lama, now 82, on his arrival in Arunachal Pradesh. […]
New Delhi : Responding to a newspaper report that cited a Union government advisory asking central and state government functionaries and leaders to stay away from the Dalai Lama-led “Thank You India” campaign, the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) on Friday said that Indias position on the Tibetan leader is “unchanged”. “The government of India’s position […]
