Dharamshala: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay distributed Record of Tenancy Certificate (RTC) to 122 Tibetan families in Kollegal Tibetan settlement where he flagged off his final farewell tour. The Kollegal Tibetan settlement since its inception in 1973 has remained a forest land and the legal (...)
Taiwan Times 5 April 2021 Similarities between the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression of Tibet and East Turkistan (Xinjiang) In both Tibet and East Turkistan, a systematic attack on identity; targeting language, religion and culture is taking place. The spat of “Patriotic Education (...)
Dharamshala: Home Kalon Sonam Topgyal Khorlatsang left Dharamshala on a 12-day official tour to Ladakh and five southern Tibetan settlements from 5 – 16 April. With the term of 15th Kashag nearing its end, Kalon embarks on a farewell tour beginning from Ladakh where he will inaugurate the new (...)
Dharamshala: As part of his official farewell tour across Tibetan settlements in South India, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay began the first leg of his official engagements with Kollegal settlement where he took part in the Gratitude Year programme. He received a warm reception from the settlement (...)
Zee News 2 April 2021 New Delhi:Dismissing Chinese claim to appoint the next Dalai Lama, President of the Tibetan Government in Exile said on Friday (April 2) that Tibetans have “copy right” over reincarnation, but Beijing is planning to have a “duplicate” copy. Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong (President) (...)
Washington DC: 31 March 2021 marks the 62nd anniversary since His Holiness the Dalai Lama stepped on Indian soil in 1959. To remember this historic day, the Office of Tibet-Washington, DC organized the “Online North America Sino-Tibet Dialogue” joined by 15 prominent Chinese scholars, lawyers, (...)
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to Ms. Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan, to express his deep sadness on seeing reports of yesterday’s train crash near Hualien. “I would like to offer my condolences to Your Excellency,” he wrote “and to those families who have lost loved ones (...)
Every first Saturday of the month, as a part of its shout-out campaign, DIIR’s Social Media Desk will be profiling a civil servant of Central Tibetan Administration. This week we are pleased to profile Mr. Palden Dhondup, Secretary of Department of Health, CTA. Social Media Executive (SME): (...)
Dharamshala: This morning Janis Martins Skuja of the Latvian Society for Tibet welcomed His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a webinar organised by a coalition of individuals and organizations from the Baltic States. His Holiness responded, “I have visited the Baltic States on several occasions. One (...)
New Delhi: Ahead of his official engagements in Tibetan settlements in South India, the President of the Central Tibetan Administration released a human rights report published by the New Delhi-based Centre for Democracy, Pluralism and Human Rights at the Constitution Club of India in Delhi (...)