Dalai Lama

The Buddhist leader doubled down on comments he made in 2015 when he said an unattractive female Dalai Lama would be useless.

"Ultimately they should develop their own country," said the 83-year-old Tibetan, himself a refugee from the Chinese repression of Tibet.

The leader said China must commit to protecting the disputed region's culture and autonomy.

"He is exhausted after teaching for a long period of time," a spokesperson said.

"Our research findings are a far cry from many popular claims..."

The Dalai Lama's new app allows users to keep up with him through photos, videos and news updates, but it does not show up in China's Apple Store. 

The U.S. president has visited homes of the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions on his current international tour.

The backlash from Beijing over a bipartisan congressional visit to the Dalai Lama in India comes as relations between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are warming.

They spare over neighboring allies, and are at odds over their shared border and the Dalai Lama.

"I practice taking others' suspicions and distrust and giving them patience, tolerance and compassion," the Dalai Lama told John Oliver.

The spiritual leader believes Trump will tone down his divisive promises once in office.

The Dalai Lama has previously opposed the fried chicken restaurant's expansion into Tibet.

Tibetans' culture, religion, history and language are being erased by China.

The elderly Tibetan exile was the center of attention at a gathering of 18,000.

Tibetans feel the Chinese are uniquely unqualified to select the Dalai Lama's successor.

The White House said Obama had a "great relationship" with the Dalai Lama.

We may think of His Holiness as a gentle old fellow, but this affability masks a heart of steel.

The spiritual leader made the announcement during a speech at a university in India.

Nicky Vreeland went from a privileged life of high fashion to becoming a Tibetan monastery's first Western abbot.

"Sooner or later you have to solve these problems, not by force but by understanding and talk," said the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader

"While great progress has been made to integrate into the world economy, I believe it is equally important to encourage China to enter the mainstream of global democracy."