DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan Delek Hospital today held the closing ceremony of the one and half month nursing training for nuns. The training was organised by the hospital as part of its programme to improve public health. Nine nuns from 7 different nunneries including Dolmaling, Gaden Choeling and (...)
DHARAMSHALA: After receiving the consent from the Indian government on the extension of the Indian Registration Certificate (RC) of those newly-arrived Tibetans who came to India for pilgrimage purpose, the Department of Security of the Central Tibetan Administration, on 25 Sept. 2013, started (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay will visit the United States and Italy from 11 – 20 November. During his visit to US, Sikyong will attend some important meetings, meet officials and address the Tibetan community in New York and Washington from 11-17 November. Sikyong’s talk to Tibetan (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration has announced overseas scholarships at Donguk University (Korea), Feldman Graduate Fellowship at Brandeis University (US) and EMINTE (Europe) scholarship 2013. Click on the links below to see the details: or visit (...)
DHARAMSHALA: In a letter to the family of late Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the first Prime Minister of Poland after the fall of communism in 1989, His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his sadness and offered his prayers and condolences. His Holiness the Dalai Lama recalled his several meetings with Mr (...)
Paul Mooney www.Forbes.com 28 October 2013 In February 2009, Tapey, a young Tibetan monk in the Kirti Monastery in Ngaba upset because prayer ceremonies were canceled at his monastery, doused himself in gas, walked to an intersection and set himself on fire while holding a home-made Tibetan (...)
BRUSSELS: The 97th Tibet Intergroup meeting was held at the European parliament on 28th Oct, 2013. It was presided over by the president of the Tibet Intergroup in the European Parliament, MEP Thomas Mann. The Intergroup meeting was attended by MEPs, officials of office of Tibet, Brussels (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The ninth annual meeting of Tibetan settlement officers began today at Gangchen Kyishong in Dharamsala. The inaugural function was attended by Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, Home Kalon Dolma Gyari, members of the Kashag and secretaries of various departments of the Central Tibetan (...)
By Ananth Krishnan [The Hindu] The outcome of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s two-day visit to China, especially the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA), has underlined both countries’ willingness to manage their differences and sent “a positive and powerful message” to the world, said (...)
DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will join a galaxy of prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholars and scientists in Dharamsala to explore ways to tackle - craving, desire, and addiction – which are most pressing causes of human suffering. The Mind and Life Institute have brought together the (...)