By Amy Kazmin [Source: Financial Times] ‘I always pray the Chinese leadership should develop more common sense’ I arrive in Dharamsala, the Indian home of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, groggy after an overnight train journey from New Delhi and a two-hour drive into the Himalayas. (...)
La SFEMT a le plaisir de vous faire parvenir le programme de 4 jours de documentaires « Regards comparés : Tibet » du festival Jean Rouch, qui se dérouleront à l’auditorium de l’Inalco, du 26 au 29 novembre. L’entrée est publique, libre … Continuer la lecture (...)
Le festival Jean Rouch propose en compétition 2 films réalisés par des Tibétains : - »When Hari got married », de Tenzing Sonam et Ritu Sarin (http://comitedufilmethnographique.com/when-hari-got-married/) - »Who will be a Gurkha » de Kesang Tseten (...)
By Tenzin Tseten* The weeklong 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded on 14 November 2012, in Beijing with much anticipation of Xi Jinping’s elevation to the Party Secretary as well as unprecedented elevation to the chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC). Unlike (...)
BRUSSELS: A visiting Tibetan parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Penpa Tsering have met EU officials and apprised them about China’s repressive policies on Tibet which has pushed over 121 Tibetans to set themselves on fire in protest. On Monday (4 Nov), the delegation met with the (...)
By Tsering WangchukPress Officer, DIIR Whatever is dependent arising We declared that to be emptiness. That is dependent designation, And is itself the middle way. —Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā In early 2011, I had the rare opportunity to attend a commentary session by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A two-member Brazilian Parliamentary delegation visited the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile yesterday and met the Deputy Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel and other members of the Parliament. MPs Walter Feldman and Pastor Eurico are the president and Vice -president of the Brazil Tibet (...)
By Fred Hiatt, Published: November 3 (Washington Post) BEIJING Traveling here last week after America’s partial government shutdown and near-default, I expected to encounter a surge of confidence in China’s inevitable, eventual emergence as the world’s greatest power. That is not what I found. (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Mr Tashi Wangdu today took the oath of office as the new local Justice Commissioner for southern region from Chief Justice Commissioner Ngawang Phelgyal Gyechen at the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission. Acharya Tashi Wangdu is an alumnus of Central University of Tibetan Studies (...)