DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Education is organising for the first time a symposium on dialectics for students from Himachal and Ladakh at Sambhota Tibetan school in Chauntra near Dharamsala from 27 August – 1 September. Students and religious teachers, including 33 boys, 33 girls and 11 (...)
Radio Free Asia 2012-08-23 Chinese authorities set up body scanners and monitor phone calls in the Tibetan capital. Chinese authorities have implemented a massive security clampdown in Lhasa, pouring police into the Tibetan capital and setting up checkpoints with airport-style body scanners in (...)
Press Release DHARAMSHALA: Two Tibetan teenagers died after setting themselves on fire in Ngaba in north-eastern Tibet in protest against the annihilation of Tibetan identity by the Chinese government. Lobsang Kalsang, 18, a monk of Kirti monastery, and Dhamchoe, 17, set themselves on fire near (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibetan delegation leading the flame of truth torch relay in Goa met with series of Indian leaders to seek their support to end the Chinese government’s repression in Tibet. The delegation headed by Karma Yeshi, a member of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, submitted a memorandum on (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibetan nun was severely beaten and arrested by Chinese police after she raised slogans in the main market in Karze in eastern Tibet on 25 August. Shedup Lhamo, a 33-year-old nun of Karze Gaden Choeling Nunnery, shouted slogans for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, (...)
NEW DELHI: A three-member delegation of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile led by Speaker Penpa Tsering, Geshe Rongpo Lobsang Nyandak and Choekyong Wangchuk, is on a week-long visit to embassies of various nations in New Delhi to seek concrete support to end the grim situation prevailing inside (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Home Kalon Dolma Gyari visited south India to assess the condition of the Tibetans living in the state in view of the recent unfortunate incident in which Tenzin Dhargyal, a Tibetan student, was stabbed in Mysore. On 19 August, Kalon Dolma Gyari met Tenzin Dhargyal at Krishna (...)
PANAJI: The Indian community in Goa, including Speaker of the Assembly, former state minister, freedom fighters, social activists, journalists, and students expressed solidarity for the Tibetan flame of truth torch relay in the state from 24-25 August. Karma Yeshi, a member of Tibetan (...)
Press Trust of India / New Delhi After its world premiere and impressive response at Osians Cinefan, Arvind Iyer’s debut featureDrapchi has been selected for the 28th Warsaw International Film Festival in October. Written by Pooja Ladha Surti and produced by Iceberg Nine Films, the 78-minute-long (...)
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arbitrary detention for months of the prominent Tibetan Buddhist monk Yonten Gyatso, and the seven-year prison sentence he has received for spreading information about Tibet. The organization calls for his immediate release and the withdrawal of the charges (...)