DHARMSALA, IndiaDHARMSALA, India — Thousands of emotional Tibetan exiles chanted prayers and shouted slogans in northern India on Friday as they attended the funeral of a man who set himself on fire ...

XINING - A decline in the number of predatory birds has prompted more Tibetans in northwest China's Qinghai province to turn from sky burial to cremation, once a privilege for high lamas. A funeral ...

Southwest China's Tibet will spend 490 million yuan (US$75 million) over the next five years on the repair and protection of sites for the traditional Tibetan funeral practice of sky burial, local ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

DHARMSALA, IndiaDHARMSALA, India — Thousands of emotional Tibetan exiles gathered in northern India on Friday for the funeral of a man who set himself on fire in protest of China’s rule of his ...

The Tibetan Buddhist religious is one of the three main disciples of the Karmapa Lama, tasked with recognising of the Dalai Lama's reincarnation. The current Shamar, Mipham Chokyi Lodro, died two ...

XINING - Rinchen, 40, works at a crematorium in a Tibetan community in northwest China. For Tibetans, sky and water burials have traditionally been the most common funerary customs. Cremation has only ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov 26 (Reuters) - A handful of Tibetan activists on Friday staged a mock funeral for the International Olympic Committee in front of its headquarters to protest against next ...

An Tibetan exile cries during a special ceremony to pay homage to 27-year-old Jamphel Yeshi, who passed away Wednesday morning two days after he immolated himself in New Delhi, in Dharmsala, India, ...