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Karmapa Lama flees to India

The 17th Karmapa Lama has fled from China to India, ruffling diplomatic feathers all round

The 17th Karmapa Lama, a 14-year-old-leader of a major Tibetan school of Buddhism has fled from China to India, ruffling diplomatic feathers all round.

Also in this programme, the millennial sects who were disappointed when the world didn't end on new year's eve; the new leader of Germany's Central Council of Jews, Paul Speigel, should the Pope step down before ailing health gets the better of him?; the delights of the Jewish Limmud festival.

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29 minutes