New Delhi, India, 6 December 2013 – In a letter to the family of Nelson Mandela, His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his deep sadness on learning of the passing away of Nelson Mandela. His Holiness wrote: “In his death the world has lost a great leader, whose steadfast and unflinching (...)
South Tyrol, 5 December: Fours Kalon of the Central Tibetan Administration today met with President Luis Durnwalder of South Tyrol and President Ugo Rossi of Trento at the end of their stay in South Tyrol. The senior Tibetan officials also met with President Dr. Martha Stocker of the Provincial (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Dicki Chhoyang of the Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, today testified before the Italian Senate’s Extraordinary Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights. Kalon Dicki Chhoyang requested the Italian Senate (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Canadian MPs met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s new representative for North America, Mr Kaydor Aukatsang, on Parliament Hill on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing repression in Tibet, Epoch Times reported. Speaking about the meeting in the House of Commons in the afternoon, (...)
NEW DELHI: The day was just breaking as His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived at the Kempinski Hotel on Wednesday morning to perform the various preparatory rites for the Vajrabhairava empowerment. When he began the hall was quiet and virtually empty, but towards the end of his rituals, two (...)
(Times of India/PTI | Dec 5, 2013) WASHINGTON: A top Obama administration official has said that no one can feel secure in China as the country impose strict restrictions on the fundamental rights of its people. “The Chinese people are facing increasing restrictions, on their freedoms of (...)
By Jonathan Kaiman [Foreign Policy] DHARAMSALA, India — Lobsang Gyatso Sither sits at the front of a Tibetan school auditorium, the bright rectangle of his PowerPoint presentation dimly illuminating the first few rows of students before him. “Never open attachments unless you are expecting them,” (...)
(Central Tibetan Administration urges China to address grievances of Tibetans) DHARAMSHALA: The Chinese government has increased security clampdown in Ngaba in northeastern Tibet after a Tibetan set himself on fire to protest against its repressive rule in Tibet. He reportedly succumbed to his (...)
PARIS: A three-week exhibition on Tibet titled “Long Look Homweward” opened yesterday (3 December) at the Mediatheque, the Library of the Municipality of Montoire sur le Loire, a small town in central France. The exhibition was inaugurated in the presence of the local dignitaries including the (...)
[Zurich Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Electronic Edition) in German 04 Nov 13] [Article by Beat U. Wieser on interview with Zhu Weiqun, chairman of the Subcommittee of Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at Bern's Bellevue Palace Hotel] Talking with (...)