CALL FOR PAPER 7TH YOUNG TIBETAN RESEARCH SCHOLARS’ CONFERENCE 18-20 August 2021 The Tibet Policy Institute is virtually hosting the 7th Young Tibetan Research Scholars’ Conference from 18-20 August 2021. The Registration call upon young Tibetan research scholars pursuing Ph.D, M.Phil. and M.A. (...)
By Javier C. Hernández New York Times 19 April 2021 Movie theaters in China are being ordered to screen patriotic films with titles like “The Sacrifice” and “The Red Sun.” Elementary students in some cities are being told to create paintings and calligraphy extolling the “Chinese dream.” Buses and (...)
Dharamshala: The 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile welcomed Parliamentarians Tenzin Jamyang and Geshe Gangri as its new members to its Fifth Standing Committee from Utsang, and Domey provinces. Members of the Fifth Standing Committee of the 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Speaker Mr. Pema (...)
Brussels, Belgium: Tibetans are forbidden to practice their religion – Buddhism. Tibetan nomads are denied their animals and grassland. In fact, Tibet is denied to Tibetans. What could they do, but make the sacrifice of their lives, by self-immolation?, remarked MsYeshey Paden from Sweden making (...)
Dharamshala: 37 days have passed since Gelong Ngagrampa Gendun Tsering, a senior Buddhist scholar and an acclaimed tantric master of Gyuto Tantric Monastery was declared clinically dead, but has since shown no signs of physical decay or depletion. Gelong Ngagrampa Gendun Tsering is believed to (...)
Dharamshala: Tibet TV, Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), CTA has announced a Take-Off film grant to encourage budding Tibetan filmmakers in the exile community to make short feature or documentary films for Tibet TV. A. Tibet TV’s Take-off Film Grant to Produce a Film (...)
Freetibet.org 15 April 2021 The detentions in eastern Tibet led to the arrest of Thubten Phuntsok. Free Tibet has learned that four Tibetans were detained and interrogated by local police in Dzato County last month for burning incense and praying on a mountain. Four Tibetans took part in the (...)
Dharamshala: On learning that former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has tested positive for Coronavirus, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote to him to express his sympathy and concern. “I pray that you will make a swift recovery,” he wrote. “As you know, I have enormous respect for you and count (...)
Dharamshala: Now more than ever, it is necessary, if not incumbent to reflect on the true interconnectedness of the entire humanity. Never before have so many countless people across the world been linked by their wellbeing and consequences. But how, then, as individuals, do we respond to the (...)
Dharamshala: Youth Empowerment Support (YES) section of the Department of Home, CTA disbursed a micro-credit of INR 39,00,000 to 34 Tibetan youth based in 7 different Tibetan settlements in the year 2020-2021. The micro-credit program of the YES program is primarily designed to support the (...)