DHARAMSHALA: The main prayer hall of the historic Lithang Monastery, Ganden Thubchen Choekhorling, in eastern Tibet, suffered huge damages caused by a massive fire that erupted on Saturday. At least two monks were injured in the incident. The cause of the fire at the Ganden Thubchen (...)
November 18, 2013: New Delhi based India Tibet Coordination Office organized an educational program to final year English journalism students of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) from November 14-17, 2013 at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. The study tour was initiated to enhance (...)
New York: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay completed his official visit to the United States with an address to a large gathering of Tibetans residing in the New York/New Jersey area on November 17. The public talk organized by the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey (TCNYNJ) was held at the (...)
Tokyo, Japan. 18 November 2013 (Dalailama.com) When His Holiness the Dalai Lama stepped out of his car into the sunshine and the grounds of the Yakumo Academy this morning a great cheer went up. He was audibly welcomed not only by the students on the quadrangle, but also those on the balconies (...)
[Source: Bangkok Post] The new Chinese leadership under President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang and the modern-day Chinese intelligentsia are more receptive to the Tibetan cause and Tibetans’ demand for high-level autonomy, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on (...)
(Dalailama.com) Tokyo, Japan 17 November 2013 For the fifth in a series of dialogues His Holiness the Dalai Lama has held with scientists in Japan since 2004, he was accompanied into the hall where the meeting was taking place by the Abbot of Koyasan, headquarters of the Shingon school of (...)
17 November, Berlin: “There is no space for any form of protest in Tibet,” said Mr. Penpa Tsering, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament during the Parliamentary delegations’ last program today. The Tibetan Community in Berlin and Tibet Initiative Deutschland hosted a meeting with their members at (...)
[Source: ICT blog] by Bhuchung K. Tsering As part of my work I look at the statements by China’s leaders to see if they reveal anything about the current state of affairs in Tibet. This was particularly so after General Secretary Xi Jinping took over the leadership and people were having (...)
[Source: The New York Times] By JANE PERLEZ Published: November 13, 2013 BEIJING — China’s new national security committee is mainly based on the Washington model. It will put at the disposal of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, a highly empowered group of security experts who can work the levers (...)
[Source: dalailama.com] NARITA: As the Dreamliner in which His Holiness the Dalai Lama had flown from India touched down at Narita Airport this morning (15 November), the weather, not surprisingly for the time of year, was overcast. In contrast, the friends who came to meet him were warm and (...)