Story Archive
2016-12-29
They had come to Larung Gar from other parts of China and from Europe and the U.S. to study Tibetan Buddhism.
2016-12-27
The group will be resettled in a temporary camp in Qinghai province's Golog prefecture, a local source says.
2016-12-22
Destruction at the once bustling Buddhist study center has turned it into a 'dusty valley,' one source says.
2016-12-22
Sonam Yarphel had staged a solo protest in Sershul calling for Tibetan freedom and the Dalai Lama's return.
2016-12-20
The former Kirti monk was carrying a photo of the Dalai Lama and shouting slogans when he was overpowered by police.
2016-12-14
Senior monks from the nuns' former Buddhist study center check on their condition, give religious teachings.
2016-12-13
Authorities had demanded they say that Tashi Rabten had died not in a protest but because of a family dispute.
2016-12-09
Removed from the Buddhist study center that was their home, they now live crowded into metal huts.
2016-12-09
Chinese police questioned and detained family members following the protest, local sources say.
2016-12-09
Anyone wanting to study Tibetan Buddhism there must first pass a political examination, and must be a monk or nun.
2016-12-08
The protest brings to 146 the number of self-immolations by Tibetans calling for freedom in China.
2016-12-07
Some had helped organize celebrations of last year's birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, sources say.
2016-12-06
He was one of a group of 20 that had tried to stop Chinese police from taking a burned protester into custody.
2016-12-05
She was convicted of 'homicide' after trying to prevent a self-immolation protester from being seized by police.
2016-12-02
The pilgrims, most of them elderly, had hoped to attend the Kalachakra teachings scheduled for January in India.