INSTEAD OF THE DALAI LAMA initiating a Kalachakra ceremony, had things turned out differently, it might easily have been Pope John Paul II consecrating some Christian event in Ulaan Bataar.
KATHMANDU — The world of refugeedom tends to be divided between political exiles and economic migrants, even though the dividing line between the two is often blurred. However, there is one
The Dalai Lama's presence in Lhasa would provide the Tibetan people not only wisdom and spiritual sustenance, but also help them face their day-to-day problems with
The 1990s has seen an unprecedented modernisation offensive in Tibet, and an attempt to transform the ancient capital into a frontier boom-town. But how much say do Tibetans have
Becoming good Buddhists may well be a matter of people becoming something they look as though they might have been but never actually were.
Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned guru, once
Tibetan ritual music is not a pastiche of gentle good feeling about the Universe. It is an alarm to the system, waking us up to the vibrancy of the world
When future historians look back, they may find that it is the dharma's universalism, rather than Tibet's victimisation, that explains the extraordinary worldwide public support for
Were Tibet a developing country rather than a sullen Autonomous Region (U-Tsang and a truncated Kham), the prevailing mantras in seminars and gostis in Lhasa in 1992 would all
Tibetan Buddhism is enjoying growing popularity in the West and in Southeast Asia. But as the religious empire grows, followers are asking more difficult questions of the dharma as well
