JAKARTA: Kalon Dicki Chhoyang and Ms Kalden Tsomo, Under Secretary for DIIR Human Rights Desk, participated in the Second International Conference on Human Rights, Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia in Jakarta on 17-18 October, 2012. During this first visit to Indonesia, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The English version of ‘Hidden Tibet: History of Independence and Occupation’, a book penned by Russian writer Dr S.L. Kuzmin, has been made available online. (Click here to read) The book was released by Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay at a function organised by the publisher, Library of (...)
From 6 to 15 October, the flame of truth relay has covered 34 different places inside Delhi, where thousands of signatures were collected to be submitted to the UN on 10 December for its action on the issue of Tibet. All the Tibetan organisations and offices based in Delhi participated in the (...)
Providence, RI, USA, 17 October 2012 – It was a brisk and bright morning as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove along the Charles River out of Boston on the way to Providence, Rhode Island today. All along the route the trees wore an array of autumn colours. His first engagement on arrival in (...)
[Forum 2000] The Forum 2000 Foundation is delighted to announce that Aung San Suu Kyi and His Holiness the Dalai Lama have joined its International Advisory Board. Both of them will now join the existing members of the committee, namely the former President of South Africa Frederik Willem de (...)
BOSTON: The Central Tibetan Administration has placed a special emphasis on recruiting and supporting more Tibetan students to top universities and graduate schools, in hopes of increasing the number of experts of Tibetan origin across many academic and professional fields. As part of this (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration today organised a prayer service at the main temple here, to mourn and express solidarity with all those Tibetans who have self-immolated for the cause of Tibet, including 52-year-old Tamdin Dorjee. Tamdin Dorjee, grandfather of the 7th Gungthang (...)
After the Nobel Peace Prize win in 1989, the Tibetan struggle for freedom and justice got another major shot in the arm on this day in 2007 with the conferment of the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award of the US, on His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Ms Nancy Pelosi, the then (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Tibetans living in northeastern India last week joined a group of 47 Indian supporters from seven different states of India for a peace rally to Tawang, a border town situated between Tibet and India. It was organised by Bharat Tibet Sayog Manch to urge the Chinese government to (...)