DHARAMSHALA: The Special Committee on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights of the Italian Senate has adopted a resolution on Tibet. The resolution came against the backdrop of a testimony by Kalon Dicki Chhoyang of the Central Tibetan Administration’s Department of Information and (...)
DEHRADUN: The second series of “Nuns Empowerment and Need Analysis Workshop”, organised by the Central Tibetan Administration’s Women’s Empowerment Desk of Social and Resource Development Fund, began today at Sakya Rinchen Choeling nunnery in Dickyiling Tibetan settlement in the northern Indian state (...)
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR [The New York Times] By Scott Moore Last week, China’s two primary legislative bodies, the National People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Congress, convened their annual meetings in Beijing. Although the delegates’ primary function is to ratify decisions made (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A 5-day research methodology workshop for an in depth study of the Tibetan Buddhist canons is underway at the Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath. The workshop is being held as part of the Department of Religion and Culture’s efforts to encourage in depth study of the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: India-Tibet Friendship Society, a Tibet Support Group based in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, organised a seminar on the strategic role of Tibet in India-China relations on the eve of the 55th Tibetan National Uprising Day on 10 March. Addressing the seminar, Acharya (...)
By Namse Namgyal My name is Namse Namgyal. The lack of knowledge behind the pairing of these two names would make many a Tibetan smile. My mother, as happened with many Tibetans brought up in Switzerland, grew up quite disconnected from the traditional Tibetan ways and only became aware of the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Henri Malosse, met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala (India) earlier today. He was accompanied by a delegation of EESC members, whose official visit included attendance of the 55th anniversary (...)
Prague, March 10 (CTK) – Town halls across the Czech Republic, including in Prague and Plzen, west Bohemia, hoisted the Tibetan flags yesterday to remember the 55th anniversary of the anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet in which at least 80,000 Tibetans died. “The campaign is not only backed by towns (...)
Images of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to Nechung Monastery and the newly reconstructed Tibetan Parliament in Exile building in Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamsala, India, on 11 March 2014.