Dalai Lama Leads Prayers at Russian Monastery
606671
Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims trekked to a temple in the southern republic of Kalmykia today to join prayers led by the Dalai Lama, on his first visit to Russia after years of being denied entry.
417566
MOSCOW -- A Russian icon that hung for years in the private chapel of Pope John Paul II returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday, a gesture that the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
260216
Those caring for him at a Hindu monastery in Wales say he symbolizes the sanctity of all life and is an inspiration to temple-goers. Officials say he could have a contagious disease and should be put down.
511017
The Dalai Lama said Thursday that China is taking an increasingly harsh stance on Tibet and he appealed for international help during a visit to Rome.
247613
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama says Tibet might benefit more by remaining with China provided the culture and the environment of the Himalayan region is protected.
227952
The Dalai Lama's special envoy has  arrived in China for talks on the exiled spiritual leader's  aspirations for Tibetan autonomy, the third such visit in three  years, officials in Washington said on Tuesday.
308964
Russian Buddhists brave snow and rain to see the Dalai Lama, who is visiting the republic of Kalmykia.
194355
Nuns of Mother Teresa's order marked the seventh anniversary of her death with special prayers for the children who died in Russia's school hostage crisis.
326678
BEIJING, (Dec 5) - The Dalai Lama's top envoy, in rare remarks on a dialogue process with China, has warned of potential instability unless the issue of Tibet is resolved within the lifetime of the 71-year-old spiritual leader.
587805
ELISTA, Russia  - The Dalai Lama arrived Monday in Russia&#39;s Buddhist region of Kalmykia for a long-awaited visit. The revered 69-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader flew into Kalmykia at 1300 GMT from New Delhi.
333681
In a Nov. 29 story about the Dalai Lama, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Buddhist spiritual leader was making his first visit to Russia. He traveled to Russia several times previously, including a 1994 visit and a one-day trip in 1995 en route to Mongolia.
24947
Russia will allow Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit a southern Buddhist Russian region for the first time, the foreign ministry said in a move certain to anger China.
335567
Days after China bound itself  closer to Tibet with a new railway, a senior official accused  the Dalai Lama, the region&#039;s exiled spiritual leader, of  seeking to split China and play politics with religion.
178800
ELISTA, Nov. 29. - The Dalai Lama, smiling modestly at his admirers, began his first visit to Russiaâs Buddhists today after Moscow abruptly reversed its refusal to grant the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader entry.
311435
The State Department welcomed on Tuesday the arrival in China of a delegation representing the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
600088
Tibet's second-holiest monk, the Panchen  Lama, has visited Lhasa on a rare trip to the Himalayan region  by the living Buddha, whose selection in 1995 was marred by  controversy after the exiled Dalai Lama chose another boy.
593273
MOSCOW - A massive Russian church bell that hung for decades at Harvard was returned to a Moscow monastery yesterday, nearly 80 years after it and 17 others were rescued from Stalin's religious purges by a US industrialist.