DHARAMSHALA: Dolkar Tso (Kyi), a 26-year-old Tibetan woman from Kanlho, Amdo in north-eastern Tibet set herself on fire today at around 2:30 pm local time. It was the second self-immolation in two days. Latest reports coming out of Tibet say she died on the spot after setting herself on fire (...)
Dharamsala, Aug 7 (IANS) It has been a year of global diplomacy for Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay for a land he has never been to. The 43-year-old and Harvard educated elected head of the Central Tibetan Administration, based in this northern Indian town, completes a year in (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Reports coming out of Tibet say a Tibetan monk of Kirti monastery self-immolated in Ngaba in north-eastern Tibet yesterday. Lobsang Tsultrim, 21, set himself on fire while shouting slogans demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet on the street in Ngaba town at (...)
By Perry Link [The New York Review of Books] The Chinese Communist Party has always put great emphasis on smooth surfaces, maintaining political “face” through a decorous exterior. Men at the top dye their hair black and every strand must be in place. But sometimes there are cracks in the (...)
Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India, 4 August, 2012 – Following his return from Zanskar, in the morning of 2nd August, His Holiness the Dalai Lama inaugurated a 4-day conference on Madhyamika Philosophical Systems of the Four Major Tibetan Buddhist Traditions organized by the Central Institute of (...)
BANGALORE: Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today met the chief minister of Karnataka, Jagadish Shettar, who said the state government would provide continuous support for Tibetans living in the five settlements in the state. During his meeting with the chief minister at his office, Kalon Tripa (...)
Washington, Aug 4 (ANI): Islamist groups in Pakistan are exaggerating the incidences of ill-treatment of Muslims in Myanmar to recruit people for their cause and fund their own agendas, a report has said. The international community recently raised concerns about human rights abuses against (...)
GENEVA: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion has been apprised of the Chinese authorities’ crackdown on Tibetan intellectuals in Tibet. At least 24 Tibetans intellectuals, including monks, men and women, have been given sentences ranging from few months to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Local Indian dignitaries and public have been participating in the ongoing flame of truth relay in different parts of India. Thousands of people took part in signature campaign during the relay in HD Kote town and Naganahalli village near Rabyaling Tibetan settlement in Hunsur on (...)
MUNDGOD: Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay, who is on a 6-day visit to south India, met Tibetan college students and members of Tibet support groups in Mysore on Wednesday. Addressing an event hosted by the Indo-Tibetan Friendship Society, Kalon Tripa expressed gratitude to the government and (...)