Filmmaker Noam Gonick writes about making his film Parade, an ode to the movement that made queer people who we are today.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The Dalai Lama has hopes for Tibet, but as someone who knows the feeling of having governance forced upon him all too well, he does not say that these conditions are the absolutely correct ones.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Buddhist text in Europe and the United States ...

Tibetan Buddhism is a unique expression of Buddhism that has developed over centuries in the high Himalayan region of Tibet ...

Death should not be seen as the end of life but as the beginning of eternity, Pope Francis said in words he wrote only days ...

Occasionally, I collide with my past in the form of laminated ID cards. Some I keep in my wallet as reminders. Others I have ...

As China develops, life expectancy has steadily risen -- reaching around 79 years in 2024, among the highest in the ...

The Potala Palace Management Office created an experimental restoration team for palm-leaf manuscripts in 2019, and its main ...

Demand for an international investigation grows following the death of beloved Tibetan Lama in Vietnam and cremation without ...

When the Dalai Lama turns 90 in July, the Buddhist monk, who for many exiled Tibetans personifies dreams of a free homeland, will ask if they want a successor.

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...