Dalai Lama ‘optimistic’ about relations with China

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said he was “optimistic” about patching up relations with China, as he continued a visit to Britain loudly condemned by Beijing. Speaking at a lecture in London on the second day of his trip

Dalai Lama ‘not blaming Saddam’

Global problems cannot solely be blamed on leaders like Saddam Hussein, the Dalai Lama has told a UK audience. The exiled Tibetan leader, currently on a tour of the UK, told a Westminster audience there were wider issues and “change must come from the grass roots”.

His Holiness welcomed by Archbishop, Foreign Secretary and Prince Charles

International respect for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s moral authority was apparent this afternoon when the Tibetan leader was welcomed at separate high profile engagements by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Jack Straw, and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.

The Larkhall attic Margaret turned into a Buddhist shrine

HIS HOLINESS the Dalai Lama comes to the SECC in Glasgow on Saturday for the first of four days of teachings on Buddhism. An expected 10,000 people will attend his public talk, while the Solus Festival at the Glasgow Buddhist Centre in Sauchiehall Street