Dharamshala: Ven Karma Gelek Yuthok, Kalon for Religion and Culture, CTA left for an official tour to Dehradun this morning to attend the commemoration of 30th death anniversary of the 10th Panchen Rinpoche. The ceremony to be held on 26 … (...)
Brussels: Members of European Parliament Bas Belder (ECR), Christian Dan Preda (EPP) and Josef Weidenholzer (S&D) hosted a two-hour long conference on ‘Freedom of Religion in China’ in the European Parliament on 23 January. The session was attended by a … (...)
Intercept, 19 January 2019 Read original news here GOOGLE IS FACING a new campaign of global protests over its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China. On Friday, a coalition of Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, and human … (...)
Dharamshala: Tibet Policy Institute, the research wing of Central Tibetan Administration concluded its flagship conference of Young Indian Scholars on Tibetan Studies here at the Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies on Thursday. Over the course of the three-day conference, … (...)
Hong Kong Free Press, 9 January 2019, Read original news here Taiwan’s unification with the mainland is “inevitable”, China’s President Xi Jinping said on January 2. Xi warned against efforts to promote the island’s independence, adding that Beijing would not … (...)
The Third Pole.net, Climate change has already made the mountain communities in the Tibetan Plateau and the Nepali villages in the west that border it very vulnerable, and new infrastructure adds to the risk. This is the second part in … (...)
By Kunchok Dolma Yaklha, Special Appointee for Human Rights Last week the U.S. State Department issued an updated travel advisory for China, warning American citizens about the “arbitrary enforcement of local laws” there, including the “exit bans” which bar individuals … (...)
Economic Times, 9 January 2019, Read original news here BEIJING: Taiwan’s military has announced a series of newly designed large-scale military drills for this year in response to China’s continuing threat to use force to gain control over the island. … (...)
By John Dunne, Tricycle JAN 07, 2019 Read original news here A Buddhist scholar examines the assertion that Buddhism is more like a science of the mind than a religion. The following article is excerpted from one of the final talks in … (...)