DHARAMSHALA: The College for Higher Tibetan Studies, a branch college under the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics set up in 1996 at Sarah village near Dharamshala, today marked its 16th founding anniversary. Presiding over the function to mark the occasion, Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay (...)
PARIS: Maison du Tibet (Tibet House) based in Paris in association with the Municipality of Mandelieu-la Napoule organised the first ever Festival of Tibet and Himalayan People in Mandelieu on 9-10 August. Mandelieu-la Napoule is a French city located in the Alpes-Maritimes county in the (...)
By Ananth Krishnan [The Hindu] BEIJING: While there remain serious differences between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama on the major political questions surrounding Tibet’s future, it would be in China’s interest to achieve a permanent, negotiated political solution for Tibet, N. Ram, (...)
By John Sudworth BBC News, Shanghai Given that the UK Labour Party says that it is “deeply concerned” about the human rights situation in Tibet, it might seem odd that one of its senior politicians is in Lhasa at all. The Fourth Forum on the Development of Tibet, taking place in the Tibetan (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Secretary for Information of the Department of Information and International Relations, Mr Tashi Phuntsok, visited the Tibetan communities in Tashi Jong, Bir and Chauntara to raise awareness on the Middle Way Approach and the Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) initiative to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Women’s Empowerment Desk of the Department of Home, Central Tibetan Administration, today released a guideline to create a “Sexual Assault Free Tibetan Society”. The guideline was created under the guidance of the Kashag to pre-empt sexual assault cases in the Tibetan community. (...)
By John Garnaut [The New York Times] SYDNEY, Australia — The four Chinese characters that heralded President Xi Jinping’s war against corruption in a speech by a political ally in December 2011 can easily lose impact in translation. “Life-and-death struggle,” while idiomatic in English, is too (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Dr.Tsering Wangchuk, Kalon for the Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration visited Bir Tibetan settlement in Himachal Pradesh on 7 August. He was there to preside over the concluding ceremony of a dental training workshop for school nurses and health workers. The (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The France Tibetan Association formally adopted Sonamling Tibetan settlement based in Ladakh in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, under the ‘Sister Shichak’ initiative of the 14th Kashag. A representative from the France Tibetan Association also visited the Tibetan (...)
DHARAMSHALA: More than 100 Tibetans staged a peaceful protest against coal mining in Nangchen county (incorporated into China’s Qinghai Province) last week. The Tibetans were raising environmental and health concerns to the Tibetan residents as a result of rampant mining in the area, according (...)