The doors of Santa Marta remain closed to the Dalai Lama. "Yet we would expect that after so long they would open for him too." In these nearly twelve years of pontificate, Bergoglio has ...

In Beijing, people crowded the Lama Temple at dawn while big crowds also ... A photographer’s fantastical portrait of rural China during Lunar New Year White House reveals source of mysterious ...

From Beijing to Havana, the holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea ... prays on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Lama Temple in Beijing on ...

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year of the Snake.

Similar scenes played out after daylight in the morning at the Lama Temple in Beijing, a historic Tibetan ... is also a time for “temple fairs” in China, with performances by lion dance ...

Its most iconic structure, the Parthenon, is a peripteral octastyle Doric temple ... years as China’s political center. The complex is oriented north-south, like the rest of Beijing.

China hopes the Dalai Lama can "return to the right path," and is open to discussions about his future as long as certain conditions are met, Beijing said on Monday, a proposal rejected by the ...

says deputy speaker of Tibetan-parliament-in-exile Deputy speaker hopeful of Dalai Lama's return to Tibet, says back-channel talks ongoing BEIJING/NEW DELHI, Feb 10 (Reuters) - China hopes the ...

The Dalai Lama stepped down in 2011 as the political leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, which Beijing does not ...