His Holiness the Dalai Lama is escorted through earthquake affected areas of Mirandola, Italy, on 24 June 2012/Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL MATERA, Italy: Under a damp, grey sky His Holiness was given a warm send off from Inverness early this morning, and then flew across the Channel, across (...)
LONDON: The exiled spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, the Dalai Lama, has spoken about the sadness he feels towards those who have self-immolated in protest over Chinese rule. Speaking to BBC’s Andrew Marr, he explained how the Chinese government needed to carry out thorough investigations (...)
MIRANDOLA, Italy (AFP) – The Dalai Lama visited emergency camps in north-east Italy housing thousands of people who were hit by two deadly earthquakes in May, Italian media reported on Sunday. Visiting the town of Mirandola, in the hard-hit Emilia Romagna region, the exiled Tibetan spiritual (...)
Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay addressing a media conference on the first day of his visit to Australia in Melbourne on 24 June 2012 MELBOURNE: Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay arrived in Melbourne today to start his one-week visit to Australia. This is his first visit to Australia after taking the (...)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama greeting a young fan on his arrival in Inverness, Scotland, on 23 June 2012/Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL INVERNESS: His Holiness the Dalai Lama has disapproved the Chinese government’s censorship policy as morally wrong, saying the country’s 1.3 billion people have a (...)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama to pray at earthquake hit Mirandola on 24 June 2012, before visiting in Basilicata and Milan, Italy Milan, 23 June: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit Mirandola in Emilia Romagna tomorrow morning – 24 June and offer prayers for those who have died, injured, their (...)
Press Release 23 June 2012 On June 20, 2012, two Tibetan men self-immolated in Tridu, Yushul: Ngawang Norphel (age 22) and Tenzin Kedhup (age 24). The latter succumbed to his injuries on the same day. The former, Ngawang Norphel, survived and was taken to a nearby monastery. The following (...)
Dundee, Scotland, 22 June 2012 – “Good morning, I feel very fresh today, last night I had enough sleep, a good nine hours! And today my blood pressure is good, which must be a blessing of being in Scotland. So I’m happy to be here on my fifth visit,” was how His Holiness opened his (...)
By Emily-Anne Owen (Inter Press Service) BEIJING: The Chinese government must not “eliminate individualism” but instead encourage diversity of religion, culture and language, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, stressed – after yet another Tibetan self-immolated last week in China’s (...)
VOA News 22 June 2012 The U.S. State Department says the spate of self-immolations in Tibetan areas of southwestern China are not the work of outcasts or troublemakers as China contends, but rather the desperate acts of people who are being denied their basic human rights. U.S. Undersecretary (...)