DharmaWorks News Archives

Humans dwelt in ice-age Tibet
source: Philip Ball /Nature.com
Handprints and footprints 20,000 years old reveal that people lived on the Tibetan plateau at the height of the Ice Age - 16,000 years earlier than scientists had thought. The newly found signs of life cast doubt on the idea that a glacier a...

Meditation mapped in monks
source: BBC News/ University of Pennsylvania
Scientists investigating the effect of the meditative state on Buddhist monk's brains have found that portions of the organ previously active become quiet, whilst pacified areas become stimulated. Andrew Newberg, a radiologist at....

Swiss campaign to rebuild giant Afghan Buddha
source: By Karen Iley / Excite News
GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss campaigners hoping to reconstruct one of two ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban said on Wednesday the plan could offer a much-needed symbol of hope to Afghanistan. "All we're hearing is...

'Untouchables' convert to Buddhism

source: BY Ashok Sharma/AP

NEW DELHI, India--Defying police restrictions, thousands of low-caste Hindus on Sunday converted to Buddhism, shaking off centuries-old social shackles that condemn them to lives marked by discrimination. Facing a bronze idol...

Buddhist relics smuggled out of Afganistan

source: Nobuaki Suzuki Yomiuri / Shimbun

Buddhist images and fragments of them believed to have been stolen from the world-famous Buddhist relics at Bamiyan in Afghanistan are being smuggled into Pakistan in large quantities by Afghan refugees, with Japanese collectors...

H.H. Dalai Lama news archives

Instructions for Life in the New Millennium - H.H. Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama leaves India hospital

Dalai Lama falls ill, postpones Kalachakra in India

Dalai Lama's letter to President Bush

UN Grants Tibet NGO status -- A Breakthrough For Tibet

China plans to select next Dalai Lama

'Little Lhasa': Tibetan spirit endures in the Dalai Lama's Indian home

Dalai Lama meets with Bush

Dalai Lama visits UW brain laboratory

Dalai Lama's advice for the new millenium

The Realpolitik of Spirituality - Thurman / H.H. Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama links science, spiritual life