U.S.-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje smiles as he blesses people by tapping bowed heads with a ritual vase and a peacock feather at the end of 12 days of empowerments, or initiation rituals and ...
At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...
Xizang's population grew from 1.228 million in 1959 to 3.74 million by 2025, a staggering threefold increase. Life expectancy doubled from 35.5 to 72 years. Maternal and infant mortality fell ...