A young Tibetan appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest leader of Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to ...

State media in China says that the man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged ...

General Secretary of the Communist Party is giving a religious sermon to a Buddhist monk – Beijing clearly fears an ...

Gyaltsen Norbu, who is rarely seen in public, met behind closed doors with Mr Xi in Zhongnanhai, the government compound in ...

The China-appointed Panchen Lama, second in Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, met President Xi Jinping and pledged allegiance to ...

Gyaltsen Norbu was installed by Beijing as the 11th Panchen Lama in 1995 in defiance of the religion’s highest authority the Dalai Lama, whose pick for the role — a six-year-old boy — has ...

China-appointed Panchen Lama, the second most important Buddhist monk in Tibet after the Dalai Lama, on Friday met President Xi Jinping here and swore his loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.

The Chinese government appointed Gyaltsen Norbu as the Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism in 1995 at age 5 after followers of the Dalai Lama recognized a different boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more ...