TAIPEI: On the occasion of 53rd anniversary of Tibetan democracy day on 2 September, the office of Tibet based in Taipei launched three new books on Tibet published by Gangjong publication. The books – (1) The Dalai Lama: An Ocean of Compassion, (2) A Chinese translation of International Campaign (...)
DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama today called for respect and harmony among world’s different religious traditions at a teaching attended by over 6,000 devotees from 61 countries in Dharamsala. He is giving a three-day teaching on Shantideva’s “A Guide to the Boddhisattva’s Way of Life” at (...)
By Leslie Hook / Financial Times High in the Tibetan plateau, the earth has been warming much faster than the rest of the world for the past 50 years Jiang Shenglan is hunting for caterpillar fungus, and it is not going well. Sitting in a makeshift plastic tent in a high pass on (...)
Today on the occasion of 53rd anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day, the Kashag, on behalf of the people of Tibet, offer our heartful reverence and gratitude to His Holiness the Great Fourteenth Dalai Lama and extend warm greetings to all fellow Tibetans, both inside Tibet as well as outside. (...)
Fifty-three years ago, on this day the 2nd September in 1960, the Tibetan democratic system formally came into existence with the first directly elected representatives taking oath of office in accordance with the advice and wishes of Tibetan people’s supreme leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, (...)
NEW YORK: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay completed a successful visit to Philadelphia and the West coast region of the United States from 22 to 29 August. He started his visit in Philadelphia and then travelled west to San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. He returned to (...)
By Rowan Callick / The Australian APPARENTLY I have told millions of readers in China that the people of Tibet are living “a wonderful life”, as in the title of Frank Capra’s sunniest film. My glowing words, replicated on several official websites in China, starting with that of the China Daily, (...)
By Philip Wen / China correspondent for Fairfax Media [The Sydney Morning Herald] Ambassador uses landmark visit to Tibet to “directly convey” Australia’s human rights concerns. Beijing: Australia’s top diplomat in Beijing, Frances Adamson, has used a landmark visit to Tibet to “directly convey” the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The new executive members of the Indo-Tibetan Friendship Association (IFTA) in Dharamsala yesterday paid a courtesy call on Kalon and Secretary of the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) of the Central Tibetan Administration. During the meeting, ITFA (...)