Artist Tashi Norbu (Tibetan, b. 1974) was educated as a traditional Tibetan thangka painter at the office of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. Born in Bhutan in exile, Norbu has Belgian citizenship ...

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 ...

Norbu said there are usually about 30 children in the Sunday school class learning to read and write Tibetan, which is key to practicing Tibetan Buddhism. “Once you learn to read and write Tibetan, ...

Gyaltsen Norbu is the Panchen Lama, selected by China in 1995. This appointment is rejected by most Tibetans. The Panchen Lama traditionally helps cho ...

Mr. Norbu never stopped agitating for Tibetan independence, calling Chinese actions "cultural genocide" and frequently noting that more than 1 million Tibetans had died during the Chinese occupation.

Norbu, also known as Tagster Rinpoche, was an abbot of the Kumbum Monastery in Tibet before he came to the United States in 1959.On Saturday, the Tibetan government in exile shut down its offices ...

The air was ringing with the combination of a singing bowl fading into the buzz of the tattoo gun as Tibetan artist Tashi Norbu tattooed a bird on a woman’s ankle while chanting different mantras.

Tibetan activists living abroad and in India say, based on their conversations with friends and family in Tibet, that Norbu is not held in high esteem among ethnic Tibetans in China.

Thubten’s brother and Norbu’s uncle, the Dalai Lama, has long advocated freedom for the Tibetan culture. Promoting a nonviolent solution to the Chinese occupation earned the Dalai Lama a Nobel ...

As a teenager, Norbu ran away from home in Kalimpong, India, to join the CIA-backed Tibetan guerrilla resistance operating from the Mustang region of Nepal, which ambushed Chinese garrisons inside ...

Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Lama Tahsi Norbu, will return to Sonoma at the end of this month to perform another Tibetan Healing Day. The day includes ceremonies, rituals and a painting demonstration to ...

Norbu, 45, had completed at least 21 walks and bike rides, logging more than 7,800 miles in the U.S. and overseas to support freedom for Tibet and highlight the suffering of its people.