The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...

The Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) held a one-hour prayer service on March 8 to honor the sacrifices of peaceful Tibetan protesters who participated in ...

(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven. (RNS ...

The Do Ngak Kunphen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center for Universal Peace (DNKL) will be holding their first Tibetan Cultural Festival to share stories and traditions on Oct. 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in ...

The blue flag symbolises the sky or heaven, representing purity and healing. Meditating on this flag is said to turn anger to wisdom. The white flag symbolises air and is said to turn ignorance to ...

A man hangs prayer flags on a mountain in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Jan. 24, 2023. Following the tradition, people here went early in the morning to hang new prayer flags on ...

Faith has always been at the heart of Tibetan culture. As practitioners of the country's unique form of Buddhism face increasing obstacles to their worship, Beijing has sought to cultivate a different ...

Many Tibetans reportedly have heeded the call to boycott this year's festivities. The latest protest began Sunday morning -- the second day of Monlam -- when Chinese officials stopped the monks at the ...

A Santa Fe Buddhist said he’s shocked he has to defend his religious rights in the United States.Tenzin Digkhang said he takes his religion very seriously.“I know I have my rights,” he said.His family ...