DHARAMSHALA: The abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastery has issued the following clarification in response to the baseless and misleading reports titled “Abbots Urgently Sent to the USA” and “UPDATE: Abbots Urgently Sent to the USA”, published on September 26 and November 2, 2013, respectively. Shartse (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Dolma Gyari of the Department of Home, Central Tibetan Administration met various Indian officials and politicians in Sataun and Kumrao in Himachal Pradesh to discuss the problems faced by the local Tibetan community. She met Deputy Commissioner of Nahan district Mr. Vikas (...)
By David Tobin [blogs.nottingham.ac.uk] The ethnically targeted violence of July 2009 in Ürümchi overshadowed the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. Uyghurs and Han were both victims and perpetrators and official figures claimed 197 people were killed (...)
By Amy Kazmin [Source: Financial Times] ‘I always pray the Chinese leadership should develop more common sense’ I arrive in Dharamsala, the Indian home of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, groggy after an overnight train journey from New Delhi and a two-hour drive into the Himalayas. (...)
By Tenzin Tseten* The weeklong 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded on 14 November 2012, in Beijing with much anticipation of Xi Jinping’s elevation to the Party Secretary as well as unprecedented elevation to the chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC). Unlike (...)
BRUSSELS: A visiting Tibetan parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Penpa Tsering have met EU officials and apprised them about China’s repressive policies on Tibet which has pushed over 121 Tibetans to set themselves on fire in protest. On Monday (4 Nov), the delegation met with the (...)
By Tsering WangchukPress Officer, DIIR Whatever is dependent arising We declared that to be emptiness. That is dependent designation, And is itself the middle way. —Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā In early 2011, I had the rare opportunity to attend a commentary session by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A two-member Brazilian Parliamentary delegation visited the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile yesterday and met the Deputy Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel and other members of the Parliament. MPs Walter Feldman and Pastor Eurico are the president and Vice -president of the Brazil Tibet (...)
By Fred Hiatt, Published: November 3 (Washington Post) BEIJING Traveling here last week after America’s partial government shutdown and near-default, I expected to encounter a surge of confidence in China’s inevitable, eventual emergence as the world’s greatest power. That is not what I found. (...)