The 15-year-old Karmapa, one of Tibetan Buddhism's most senior leaders, yesterday gave the first account of his dramatic escape from China across the Himalayas, and revealed that he fled his monastery ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The Dalai Lama is now here in the US for nearly a month of teaching across the country. He is the world’s best-known representative of Tibetan Buddhism, perhaps of all Buddhism.

Karmapa Rinpoche, the head of Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism who is often regarded by international media as the third-highest Tibetan lama, said he will return to Tibet and "share the ...

The Karmapa is also from a rival school of Buddhism, the Kagyu, a small order known colloquially as the Black Hats. Naming the Karmapa as regent would effectively place an outsider at the head of the ...

In December 1999 the 17th Karmapa – holder of the oldest and possibly the most revered reincarnate lineage in Tibetan Buddhism – leapt from the balcony of his monastery in Tibet into a waiting ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The 25-year-old Tibetan monk known as His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is a self-professed ...

He was the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the spiritual leader of the Kagyu Buddhist lineage. Although he is only 17 years old, he is said to have assumed the greatness of the first Gyalwa Karmapa ...

Dharamsala, Bangalore: With the Karmapa money trail and its suspected links to China casting a shadow over the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama today came out in support of a ...

SILIGURI: Giving a fresh lease of life to the Karmapa controversy, one of the claimants Dawa Sangpo Dorjee on Sunday said he was the 17th Karmapa. SILIGURI: Giving a fresh lease of life to the Karmapa ...

The government is trying to get Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje return to India from his US visit after repeated insistence of the Buddhist community. The 32 year-old Karmapa had gone to US in May 2017 ...

On his first ever visit to Europe, the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist figure after the Dalai Lama, the Karmapa, talks about being taken from his family in childhood, his exile and the demands of his ...