Pema Dechen sat on a folding chair outside the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota waiting patiently for the razor to reach for scalp. She looked straight ahead, seeming not to acknowledge the ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- It's morning time and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer. His high-pitched voice echoes inside the Columbia Heights, Minn., bedroom ...

Each year, ever since the early 1400s, Tibetan Buddhists gather to unveil a large thangka — a painting made on fabric — of Buddha. The great prayer ritual, which was banned during the cultural ...

The voices of a score of children and teens rose in songs of prayer. Barefoot or in stocking feet, they stood in rows of four or five before a shrine honoring the Dalai Lama, singing in the Tibetan ...

(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven. (RNS ...

This attractive package consists of an illustrated hardcover and a long, colorful Tibetan prayer flag, packaged together in a lovely gift box. While the concept of this gift combination is similar to ...

OREGON (WKOW) -- The Wisconsin Tibetan Association took time Thursday to pray for the people suffering in Ukraine. On Thursday, officials reported the war in Ukraine has killed more than 2,000 people ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. A cheerful group of Chinese tourists, all from eastern cities, are pushing against an enormous Tibetan prayer wheel. On a bus ...