Dorje currently lives in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, and the northern India monastery, located in the Himalayan foothills, ...

and reincarnation. Buddhist philosophy is closely related to meditation because they believe in using mindfulness to break out of the cycle of endless suffering to attain enlightenment.

Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.

or even forgo reincarnation altogether. For the CCP, the Dalai Lama’s succession is an opportunity to seize even tighter control of the Tibetan Buddhist faith and ensure its practitioners no ...