Buddhist monks during the Monlam great prayer festival. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA Monlam, or the great prayer festival, is the most important prayer event for many Tibetans. It was banned during the Cultural Revolution in China but is now celebrated in … (...)
By Sarah Jenkins and Kerry AllenBBC News and BBC Monitoring, 13 March 2019 Read original news here A university professor in China has divided opinion after setting his students an assignment to add as many friends as possible on the messaging … (...)
By Tibet Bureau Geneva Geneva: At the ongoing 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Dhondup Wangchen and a Tibetan delegation led a side event to uncover China’s 60 years of gross human rights violation in Tibet. In front … (...)
CANBERRA: Tibetans and supporters from Canberra, Sydney, Nowra and Newcastle gathered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day on 10 March. The day began in the centre of Canberra city at Garema … (...)
Reuters, March 13 2019 Read original news here TAKTSER, China (Reuters) – It may have been six decades since the Dalai Lama fled into exile, but in the isolated mountain hamlet where he was born, he remains very much on the … Continued
Dharamshala: “The 15th Kashag’s Women Empowerment Policy is committed to realising His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s vision for Tibetan women as contributors to global and peaceful leadership in the 21st century,” said President Dr Lobsang Sangay this Tuesday. He was addressing … (...)
Dharamshala: A five-member Chinese delegation representing the Sino Tibet Study Group, Federation for Democratic China and Citizen Power Initiatives for China addressed the officials of Central Tibetan Administration here at T-building Tuesday morning. In their remarks, the delegation led by … (...)