MILAN, Italy: Kalon Dolma Gyari has called on the Tibetan community in Italy to shoulder greater responsibility in the sustainable development of needy Tibetan settlements in India. In her first tour to the West since becoming Kalon for Department of Home, Kalon Gyari introduced the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education in Bangalore has introduced degree programmes in BA, B.Com, and BCA studies under its outreach and BA Honours in Tibetan and Chinese Languages under specialised programmes. This is part of a memorandum of understanding signed between (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala yesterday paid a courtesy call on Mr Rajnath Singh, the president of Bharatiya Janata Party, a political party of India. Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, the deputy speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, and officiating Sikyong Kalon Pema Chhinjor met (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Chinese government has forcibly shut down a Tibetan monastery, Gaden Dhargyeling based in Shak Rongpo in Nagchu county in eastern Tibet, over its alleged links with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The monks of the monastery have been forced to abandon the monastery and is (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The US government has expressed serious concern over the deteriorating human rights in Tibet and urged China to hold unconditional talks with His Holiness the Dalai Lama or his representatives. Uzra Zeya, who led the US side in the annual human rights dialogue with China on 30-31 (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The health department of the Central Tibetan Administration, in collaboration with the John Hopkins University, has started a hepatitis B pilot project in Tibetan settlements in Bylakuppe in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. “From July to October 2013, Johns Hopkins University (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Special prayer services will be held in Tibetan communities across the world to mark the successful completion of Tibetan political leader Dr. Lobsang Sangay’s second year in office on 8 August, the Kashag secretariat said in a circular issued on 31 July. The prayer service aims to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Tibetans in eastern Tibet have started taking part in special spiritual activities days after His Holiness the Dalai Lama called for the need to enhance the collective merit of the Tibetan people for the cause of Tibet, reports coming out of Tibet say. His Holiness the Dalai Lama (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Dolma Gyari of the Department of Home of the Central Tibetan Administration will be leaving Dharamsala for a four-nation European visit from 2-11 August. Kalon Gyari will visit Rome and Milan in Italy from 2-5 August, following which she will be in Brussels from 6-7 August. (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Calls grow for the release of Rungye Adak, who was arrested for making a daring call on this day six years ago for demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet and the release of all Tibetan political prisoners including the Panchen Lama. On 1 August 2007, the (...)