AUROVILLE: The Tibet Museum of Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration showcased a four-day photo exhibition from 26 – 29 December at the Tibet Pavilion in Auroville, Tamil Nadu. Over 700 people including tourists and Aurovillains visited the (...)
[The Wall Street Journal] By Vishal Arora NEW DELHI: Lobsang Sangay, the Tibetan prime minister in exile, gives off the impression that there is more that unites his people and the Chinese authorities who have ruled them for over half a century, than divides them. China might call him a (...)
(Dalai lama.com) Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India 29 December 2013 The morning sky over Bylakuppe was mistier as His Holiness the Dalai Lama left Sera Mey Monastery this morning. On arrival at Sera Jey he was greeted by the sight of a kyigu, a huge appliqué thangka of Guru Padmasambhava hanging down (...)
[dalailama.com] Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, 28 December 2013: This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked briskly from his car to the teaching venue in the Sera Jey courtyard. He smiled and waved to well-wishers in the crowd, but did not stop. Once the recitation of the Heart Sutra was (...)
[AFP] BEIJING: China’s top legislative committee on Saturday formally abolished the country’s “re-education through labour” camps and approved a loosening of its one-child policy, state media reported. The decisions were taken by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, (...)
[The Associated Press] BEIJING — Chinese authorities have detained a highly regarded Tibetan monk and 16 of his supporters, a Tibetan writer said Friday, as Beijing tightens its grip over the region. The writer, Tsering Woeser, said that rights lawyer Tang Tianhao confirmed the detention of (...)
[Washington Monthly] By Pearl Sydenstricker How tourism has become a tool of occupation. High on a mountain in eastern Tibet is a platform where corpses are fed to vultures. It’s a dizzying slope carpeted in grass, with a web of sun-bleached prayer flags fluttering overhead. Traditional Tibetan (...)
vendredi 27 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News
DHARAMSHALA: Thousands of Tibetans gathered at the main temple here today to offer prayers and solidarity with all those Tibetans who have self-immolated to protest against China’s repressive rule in Tibet, and those suffering unimaginable repression. The prayer service, organised by the Central (...)
vendredi 27 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News
DHARAMSHALA: The Chinese government has stepped up security across Tibet’s capital Lhasa as local residents and pilgrims gather to commemorate the death anniversary of Je Tsongkhapa, a 14th century Buddhist scholar and founder of Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, on Thursday and Friday. Tibetans (...)
[Bakewell Today] A Baslow-born filmmaker who documented the journey of two children escaping Tibet is to hold Derbyshire’s first screening of the film. Nick Gray’s film Escape from Tibet follows 11-year-old Tenzin and his brother Pasang, 19, as they negotiate the Himalayas in a bid to escape (...)