Dharamshala: The four-month stalemate of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile over the issue of oath-administration is slated to end following an advisory from His Holiness the Dalai Lama dated 6 October. Speaking at a brief press conference today, Khenpo Sonam Tenphel and Dolma Tsering, (...)
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration today expressed his greetings to Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on the latter’s 90th birthday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a close friend of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and has co-authored with His Holiness the (...)
From Free Tibet A newly opened camp in Nagchu City held a six-day training on national defence education. Chinese authorities in the central Tibetan province of U-Tsang have announced the opening ceremony of its third military training summer camp for teenage schoolchildren in Nagchu City. On (...)
Paris: As part of his ongoing visit to Paris, Dr Michael van Walt van Praag gave an interview to journalist Pierre-Antoine Donnet from Asialyst.com and journalist Nathanael Charbonnier of France Inter radio on Tuesday, 5 October. In the afternoon of the same day, Dr Michael van Walt met Senator (...)
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a two day teaching on Tsongkhapa’s In Praise of Dependent Origination followed by a question and answer session online from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on October 9-10, 2021 at the request of a group of Taiwanese. Viewers are (...)
PTI – 6 October 2021 The New Indian Express BEIJING: Qizhala, an ethnic Tibetan and Chairman of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, has been shifted to Beijing by the ruling Communist Party for a higher position in the national legislature ahead of the top leadership reshuffle next year and a (...)
Sourced by Free Tibet Three still remain in detention while a stone memorial honouring resistance to the 1959 invasion found to be destroyed Tibet Watch reported that around 117 Tibetans from Dza Wonpo Township detained en masse were released one by one from 23 September onwards. The detainees, (...)
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and study centers must begin to translate classroom texts from Tibetan into Mandarin Chinese, China’s “common language,” according to instructions (...)
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his profound condolences at the demise of Dr Alfredo Martinez Moreno, a longtime supporter of the Tibet cause and a personal friend of His Holiness. In the condolence letter dated 4 October addressed to Dr Alicia Martinez, wife of Dr Moreno, (...)
Delhi: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration met Taiwanese Ambassador to India His Excellency Baushuan Ger at his office on Monday, 4 October. During the hourlong meeting between the two, they discussed issues of mutual interest and concern. Sikyong also met with diplomats (...)