The ‘Golden Urn’ is at the heart of the ongoing controversy over how the next Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, will be chosen. While the 14th and current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso ...

This response follows China's insistence on the 'Golden Urn' process, which Tsering argues is a relatively recent imposition. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks via a video message.

A Fallen Tree Exposed 7 Ancient Urns—With Human Bones Inside The urns, found in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest, aren’t the product any known culture, according to experts.

Seven giant funeral urns dating to pre-Columbian times have been found deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. A fisher who works in this little-known waterlogged area of the middle Solimões ...

Archaeologist Geórgea Layla Holanda examines a funerary urn found beneath a tree in the Brazilian Amazon. Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development / Márcio Amaral Beneath the roots of a ...

Seven large burial urns from unknown culture found beneath uprooted tree in Fonte Boa, Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, shedding light on indigenous traditions.

China, which considers the current Dalai Lama a separatist, has asserted that only Beijing has the authority to decide who his successor will be.