Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama's time bomb Dalai Lama's time bomb

Some Tibetans have had it with the spiritual leader's nonviolence. But as Gandhi showed, patience can be the deadliest of weapons.
By Salil Tripathi Jul 1, 2008

  • Buddha on the brain

    Ex-monk B. Alan Wallace explains what Buddhism can teach Western scientists, why reincarnation should be taken seriously and what it's like to study meditation with the Dalai Lama.
    By Steve Paulson November 27, 2006

  • Dharma in the park

    Sixty-five thousand people -- students, professionals, hippies and the just plain curious -- flocked to New York to hear the Dalai Lama. But did they find anything meaningful beyond a sunny day, a picnic lunch, and a guest appearance by Richard Gere?
    By Christopher Farah September 22, 2003

  • Tibet: Lost in the Himalayas

    An American photographer who brought three children out of Tibet talks about how the country's legendary spiritual tradition is vanishing.
    By Terence Clarke February 4, 2002

  • Practicing compassion

    Nicholas Vreeland, the director of the Tibet Center in New York, reads from the Dalai Lama's book "An Open Heart," and Richard Gere reads his afterword.
    October 19, 2001

  • The Dalai Lama

    China hates him, the West wants to hug him. The spiritual leader of Tibet isn't just the bodhisattva of compassion -- he's one heck of a marketer.
    By Chris Colin November 28, 2000

  • Trekking for Tibetan potatoes

    When it comes to recipes, I'm a hunter, not a gatherer.
    By John Thorne November 14, 2000

  • "Virtual Tibet" and "The Search for the Panchen Lama"

    Even the experts fail to grasp the banality of Tibet.
    By Gavin McNett June 21, 2000

  • The Elián González of the Himalayas

    The 14-year-old Karmapa faces Chinese vengeance, accusations of espionage and the political intrigues of Tibetan Buddhism.
    By Carole Zimmer February 28, 2000

  • Celebrity debriefing

    Who wears the panties in the family? David Beckham and Tim Robbins bare all. Plus: Nice white guys finish last? Sensi-man takes beating, Backstreet boy gets no respect. And: Bill Gates, international man of tired movie catch phrases.
    By Amy Reiter January 7, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    So long, Monty Python, and thanks for the penguin. Plus: Mr. Blue is too quick to dismiss recovered addict; breadwinner moms have to work even harder.
    Letters to the Editor October 12, 1999

  • Laughing with the Dalai Lama

    From Lhasa to Dharamsala, a Westerner pieces together the poignant puzzle of Tibetan Buddhism and its exalted leader in exile.
    By Rachel Louise Snyder October 5, 1999

  • If this boat's a-rockin'...

    Jerry Hall and Paul Allen makin' waves in French waters? Oasis members get good and gobsmacked. The cut-ups at the K.C. Star take clowning too far. Plus: Money talks, "Bulworth" walks, Beatty for prez!
    By Amy Reiter August 11, 1999

  • China good? China bad?

    Nothing is simple in Tibet.
    By Hank Hyena August 7, 1999

  • His material highness

    Far from his holier-than-all image, the Dalai Lama supports such questionable causes as India's nuclear testing, sex with prostitutes and accepting donations from a Japanese terrorist cult.
    By Christopher Hitchens July 13, 1998

  • Philip Glass

    By Jack Skelley January 9, 1998

  • "Seven Years in Tibet"

    Brad Pitt follows the E-Z path to enlightenment in the earnest but sentimental "Seven Years in Tibet."
    By Dwight Garner October 10, 1997

  • Media Circus: brokaw shucks

    The preternaturally cheerful NBC anchor smiles and jives his way through a feel-good session at Berkeley.
    By Michelle Goldberg October 9, 1997

  • Beam me up, Dalai

    No technophobe, the Tibetan leader -- the Nicest Man in the World -- talks about robots and artificial intelligence, Spock and alien enlightenment.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 27, 1997
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