Endgame for the Dalai Lama: Black Hats Sect Dismantling Power Base

Editor’s note: The façade of Tibetan unity has unraveled and along with it, the Dalai Lama’s power base. Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly in Tokyo, was executive producer of the video documentary “Flight of a Karmapa” (Nachtvision 2002) taped in the Tsurphu area of Tibet, the Mustang region of Nepal, Sikkim and Dharamsala. more...

AFTER THE DALAI LAMA - Tibetan Buddhism's next leader?

The recent outburst of Tibetan rage against the Chinese government not only demonstrated once again the fear and anger among Himalayan Buddhists living under the cultural insensitivity of Beijing, it also illuminated the crucial role of the Dalai Lama, navigating skillfully between restive Tibetan exiles and an Indian government under Chinese pressures to stifle their protests. What will happen when he is gone? more...

The Karmapa's Office of Administration

The Karmapa's Office of Administration joyfully announces that His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, will visit the United States from May 15 through June 2, 2008. more...

Bigger role for Karmapa with US visit?

NEW DELHI: After waiting eight years at the Gyuto Tantric Monastery in Dharamsala, the Karmapa Lama is finally getting ready for his first trip abroad. The 22-year-old Tibetan monk, who stunned his followers, embarrassed Beijing and triggered a diplomatic spat between India and China with his daring escape to India from Tsurphu in Tibet in January 2000 when he was just 14, has been granted permission by the government of India to travel to the US from May 15 to June 2. more...

New Delhi helps Karmapa Lama get US visa

New Delhi, April 09: The United States has for the first time granted visa to Karmapa Lama, who is widely seen as the successor to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. The development comes after clearance of the 22-year-old Karmapa’s trip by New Delhi. The Tibetan monk has been staying at the Gyuto Tantric Monastery in Dharamsala since his escape to India from Tsurphu in Tibet in 2000. more...

Karmapa to visit US in May

New Delhi, April 9: Amid international spotlight on the Tibetan issue, the 17th Karmapa is set to visit the US in May on his first trip abroad since his daring escape to India in 2000. Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 22-year-old Buddist monk who heads the Karma Kagyu sect, will undertake a fortnight-long tour from May 15, visiting New York, Colorado, Washington and Seattle for religious discourses and lectures. more...

Karmapa defends Dalai Lama

Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee has totally rejected the Chinese allegation that the Dalai Lama was behind the recent unrest in Tibet. In an exclusive interview to HT, the 22-year-old who heads the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, added that he wanted to visit the US simply to fulfill a deep-seated yearning to see that country. more...

Human torch fear in Delhi protests

RELATIONS between New Delhi and Beijing were deteriorating rapidly last night after the Indian Government flatly rejected demands for a massive security clampdown to "sanitise" its capital from demonstrations by the 150,000-strong Tibetan exile community against the Olympic torch relay. Unexpectedly, India "sternly" rebuffed demands made by a special Chinese security delegation that was rushed to New Delhi amid concerns the city might provide the setting for the biggest and potentially most violent demonstrations against the torch. Beijing's annoyance flared further when it was disclosed that India had agreed to allow a high-profile Tibetan monk - the Karmapa Lama, who fled China and sought asylum in India eight years ago - to travel to the US next month. more...

The Karmapa Lama could visit the U.S. in May

The third-ranking religious authority for Tibetan Buddhists, he has for years been "controlled" by the Chinese police in Tibet, and has experienced the "cultural genocide" underway. In the winter of 2000, at the age of 14, he fled to the mountains and found asylum in India. Dharamsala (AsiaNews) - The Karmapa Lama, the spiritual leader of "Kagyupa Tibetan Buddhism," could be in the United States in May. The Indian media report that the central government has granted him a visa. But there is silence and embarrassment on the part of official sources. more...