Kick off 2017 by spending nine days in India at the 34th Kalachakra festival, presided over by the Dalai Lama. Prayers, teachings and ritual dances highlight the festival’s activities. Perillo ...

Thousands of Buddhists are gathered in Washington, D.C. wrapping up the most intense part of a 10-day prayer and meditation ritual known as the Kalachakra for World Peace.

The Dalai Lama returns to the nation’s capital this week for his first major event since retiring from politics — a spiritual ritual expected to draw as many as 100,000 participants.

The Beijing-selected Panchen Lama is conducting a key Tibetan Buddhist ritual. It's the first time in 50 years the rite has taken place in Tibet. Critics say that's because China wants more control.

The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu delivers a sermon during the Kalachakra ritual in Xigaze, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, July 21, 2016.

This ceremony’s namesake, Kalachakra, is no smiling, cross-legged Buddha in prayer position. He’s a blue, four-headed deity, both fierce and pleased, standing locked in sexual embrace with his ...

He also said that on October 17, 2018, at 6.45 pm, the Talacauvery will start to spring up. “For peace and happiness in society it is suggestible that everyone follows the Kalachakra,” he said.

HUBLI: Come January, nearly half the Tibetan population across the country will leave for home and head for Kalachakra ceremonies at Bodh Gaya, where the `Great Master' received enlightenment ...