Older people in Yunnan can still remember the days when merchants with mules plied the Tea Horse Road: the last few caravans ...

The Tibetan community welcomes all to celebrate during this the three-day festival of rituals, food and ceremonies ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. A cheerful group of Chinese tourists, all from eastern cities, are pushing against an enormous Tibetan prayer wheel.

Spinning the wheel brings the same benefits as reading the respective texts and each cycle counts as one repetition of the prayer. As many as forty thousand prayers can be tightly rolled up in the ...

There isn't anyone else like Jalue Dorjee in Minnesota. He was two or three years old when his parents realized he was destined to be a spiritual leader. “It was always you’re a lama, and you ...

RICHMOND — The Gyuto Foundation, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located ... the Dalai Lama at the culmination of the three-day Monlam Prayer Festivals for world peace, an annual celebration ...