The Dalai Lama congratulated Zandanshatar Gombojav on becoming Mongolia's Prime Minister, reminiscing about his 1979 visit.

After Mongolia’s democratic revolution in 1990, many in Mongolia were astonished when the Dalai Lama revealed that in 1936, a 4-year-old boy in Tibet had been secretly named the Ninth Bogd.

The current and 14th dalai lama, Tenzin Gyatso, will be 88 in July 2023, and the Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa in Mongolia is traditionally one of the Buddhist leaders who recognizes the dalai lama’s ...

US-born Mongolian child named by Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Tibetan Buddhism's third most important spiritual leader is pictured for the first time - risking China's fury.

In 2016, after the Dalai Lama’s visit, China blocked a crucial border entry point and imposed new fees on commodity exports from Mongolia, prompting the landlocked country to announce that they ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhists have declared their third most-important spiritual leader has been reincarnated in the body of an 8-year-old boy in Mongolia.

Dalai Lama has identified Mongolia’s next spiritual leader. But who will pick his successor? Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama.

In 1995, when the Dalai Lama named a new Panchen Lama, the second most important figure in the faith, the child was swiftly arrested by Chinese authorities and replaced with a candidate of their own.

On a visit to Mongolia in 2016, the Dalai Lama announced that this 10th reincarnation had been born. (His predecessor had died in 2012.) The People’s Republic of China then sanctioned Mongolia ...

The current and 14th dalai lama, Tenzin Gyatso, will be 88 in July 2023, and the Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa in Mongolia is traditionally one of the Buddhist leaders who recognizes the dalai lama’s ...