Tibetan Buddhist Monks

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  Bestselling Tibetan Monk Accused Of Sexual Abuse Dies In Thailand

  A controversial Tibetan monk whose best-selling book on Buddhist wisdom was overshadowed by multiple allegations of sexual abuse has died in Thailand, his official social media account reported.

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  China Releases Tibetan Monk After 5 Years

  China released a veteran Tibetan Buddhist monk after five years of imprisonment for separatism, the Free Tibet organisation confirmed on Friday.

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  China Launches First Online Database On Authenticity Of Monks

  For the first time, China on Monday launched an online system to check the "authenticity" of top Tibetan Buddhist monks, amid growing incidents of fraud involving religious leaders.

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  Opinion: Dalai Lama, Anything But "A Simple Buddhist Monk"

  The Dalai Lama calls himself "a simple Buddhist monk" bound by 253 different vows, but he has proven himself to be anything but simple and so much more than a monk.

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  Dalai Lama Urges Happiness And Peace at Glastonbury

  The Dalai Lama made his first appearance at Glastonbury on Sunday, spending an hour in the rain addressing festival-goers on how the world could be a happier place.

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  China Says Dalai Lama Less And Less Influential, But Must Reincarnate

  Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is becoming less influential, both abroad and in Tibet, but his suggestion he will not reincarnate is still a "betrayal" of the religion and the country, a top Chinese official said today.

• Revered Tibetan Buddhist Monk Cremated in Nepal

  Thousands of Tibetan exiles in Nepal have prayed for a revered Tibetan Buddhist monk during his cremation ceremony but have refrained from holding political rallies.

• Nepal to Allow Cremation of Tibetan Buddhist Monk

  Nepal reversed course and decided on Tuesday to allow the body of a revered Tibetan Buddhist monk to be brought into the country and cremated, a government minister said.

• Nepal Denies Chinese Pressure over Tibetan Monk's Cremation

  Nepal denied on Tuesday that it had caved in to diplomatic pressure from China by denying permission for a senior Tibetan Buddhist monk to be cremated in Kathmandu in accordance with his wishes.

• Dalai Lama decries Buddhist attacks on Muslims in Myanmar

  Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday decried Buddhist monks' attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, saying killing in the name of religion was "unthinkable."

• British Buddhist monk self-immolates in France

  A British monk died in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in France after he poured petrol over his clothes and set himself alight, police said Friday.

• Tibetan monks tackle science in the Indian hills

  The shouts of more than a dozen Tibetan monks echo through the small classroom. Fingers are pointed. Voices collide. When an important point is made, the men smack their hands together and stomp the floor, their robes billowing around them. It's the way Tibetan Buddhist scholars have traded ideas for centuries. Among them, the debate-as-shouting m...