Spotted in the Gaylord (Michigan) Herald Times — some ethnic Japanese celebrating Christmas in Los Angeles substitute Hotei — sometimes called the "Laughing Buddha" — for Santa Claus. This doesn’t…

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere… If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good. – Dr. Seuss, One Fish two fish red fish blue fish, 1960…

His form has passed away, he has become a mirror: naught is there but the image of another’s face. . – Jalaluddin Rumi …

New Delhi, Dec 24 : His holiness Gaden Tripa Rizong Sras-Trul Rinpoche of Ladakh has been appointed as 102nd Gaden Tripa, the supreme head of Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism.

NAGANO, Japan, Dec. 24 (AP) – (Kyodo)—The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, will visit Zenkoji Temple in the city of Nagano next June, his liaison office in Tokyo announced Thursday. The temp…

Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, a senior Chinese legislator and political advisor, passed away in Beijing yesterday. He was 99. Ngapoi, of Tibetan ethnicity, died at 4:50 pm, according to a statement issued by…

The Buddha statue near Delhi airport. Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain Airline pilots trying to land on a controversial new runway at Delhi's international airport face an unusual hazard in the form o…

BEIJING (Reuters) – The former Tibetan army commander who surrendered to the People's Liberation Army and went on to sign a peace accord in Beijing has died just short of his 100th birthday, the Xinhu…