By Ananth Krishnan [The Hindu] The outcome of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s two-day visit to China, especially the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA), has underlined both countries’ willingness to manage their differences and sent “a positive and powerful message” to the world, said (...)
DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will join a galaxy of prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholars and scientists in Dharamsala to explore ways to tackle - craving, desire, and addiction – which are most pressing causes of human suffering. The Mind and Life Institute have brought together the (...)
[The Hindu] October 24, 2013 Beijing I am deeply honoured at this invitation to speak at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China. I am conscious of the unique place that this School holds n the governance system of contemporary China and its contribution to the remarkable (...)
DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with a group of Polish Parliamentarians during his two-day visit in Warsaw on 24 October. His Holiness began by joking that Poles were as familiar as Tibetans with the drawbacks of Communist domination. He said he usually describes the situation in (...)
[The New York Times] By Dan Levin XIAHE, China — Buddhist monks in flowing burgundy robes hurried along the dirt paths of the Labrang Monastery, trying their best to ignore the scrum of Chinese tourists following their every move, many with cameras fit for paparazzi. Pilgrims and those less (...)
Press Release 26 October 2013 The ultimate judge of China’s rule in Tibet should be the Tibetan people. Even after 60 years of China’s invasion of Tibet and more than 50 years after Tibet came under the complete control of Beijing in the aftermath of the repression which crushed that year’s (...)
Itanagar, 25 October, 2013: The third series of the conference, ‘Tibet’s Relations with the Himalayas’ took place this morning at Rajiv Gandhi University, Doimukh, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. The earlier two series of this conference were held in Ladakh (October, 2012) and in Sikkim (April, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Home Kalon Dolma Gyari of the Central Tibetan Administration today launched an online retail shop for Tibetan handicrafts and artefacts. The online shop, TIBETeSHOP.com is an initiative of the Federation of Tibetan Co-operatives in India (FTCI) Ltd. Lauding the efforts of FTCI to (...)
[Source: www.dalailama.com] DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama met a group of 24 Chinese scholars, writers and poets on Monday to discuss promoting secular ethics, particularly in relation to China. The opening speaker said he was participating as a writer, not a dissident, concerned (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Speaker Penpa Tsering of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile and Pema Jungney, former speaker and current member of Tibetan Parliament called on Hon’ble Speaker of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Shri Brij Bihari Lal Butail in his chamber in Shimla on 22nd October 2013. They were (...)