EL PAÍS travels to the autonomous region of China, where governments and NGOs denounce the violation of rights and Beijing ...

Sometimes I wonder how much the British as colonial powers have impacted India and contributed to its history, legacy and most importantly creation of hill stations. A case in point is McLeodganj in ...

For weeks, Tashi, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and self-taught conservation biologist ... A roomful of hands shoot up from beneath crimson robes. “Me!” the children shout. Phil McKenna taught ...

In a remote monastery masked warriors resurrect a Vajrayana epic, where every arrow’s strike is a prayer, and a skeptic finds ...

The youthful Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, with a faint smile.

But the Tibetan community was concerned that he ... whom it calls a "wolf in monk's robes," is not the least of its paradoxes. China has regularly demanded that the Dalai Lama recognize China's ...

Many women wearing customary Ladakhi pleated robes ... Alchi monks’ ambivalence can be traced to the paintings’ strong Kashmiri influence and to their distance from contemporary Tibetan ...

These children are not dressed in their burgundy Tibetan monastic tunic because they are out doing work. Those robes are only meant when within the monastery studying or out traveling to keep distance ...