By Dukthen Kyi* The Tibetan plateau extends over 2.5 million square kilometers of which 70 per cent is covered by grasslands. The grasslands mean differently to different peoples. As Drakyom Palzang, a local Tibetan in Amdo Ngaba’s Dzoge county tackling … (...)
Throughout history, Bihar has been the epicentre of Buddhist teaching. The Rahul Collection commemorates this heritage. By Indian Cultural Forum, the Wire. Read original story here. The Rahul Collection, housed for the last 80 years in Patna Museum, has been in … (...)
Riga Latvia: His Holiness the Dalai Lama began his two-day teachings on ‘Stages of Meditation’ and ‘Concise Stages of Path’ at the Skonto hall in Riga, Latvia. His Holiness also met with various members of the media where he touched … (...)
Dharamshala: Deputy Speaker Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok attended a panel discussion titled ‘Bharat-Tibet and China: its vivad and samadhan’, organized by Himalaya Pariwar, Himachal Pradesh on 21 September at Yongling School, Mcleod Ganj. The program started with a lamp lighting ceremony and (...)
Messina, Sicily, ITALY: “This is an extraordinary moment for our city. We’re happy to have you here and to feel your presence among us. My mission has been to bring you to Sicily to talk to us,” Mayor of Messina, … Continued
By Brook Larmer – The New York Times 13 September 2017 The four-lane highway leading out of the Sri Lankan town of Hambantota gets so little traffic that it sometimes attracts more wild elephants than automobiles. The pachyderms are intelligent … (...)
Dharamshala: Tibetan Career Centre (TCC), a unit of Youth Empowerment Support section, Department of Home, CTA conducted a week-long workshop on career awareness at ten different schools and community across the Northern Tibetan Settlements. The target audience for the program were unemployed … (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The 4th session of the 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile began today, expressing grave concerns at the deteriorating situation of human rights and religious freedom inside Tibet. In his opening remarks, Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel noted the massive development projects taking … (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Zeng Rong, the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom on September 3 published a rebuttal (click here), to the hard-hitting op-ed titled ‘Tibet’s fragile ecosystem is in danger, China must change its flawed environmental policy,’ authored … (...)