DHARAMSHALA: Details slowly trickling from Tibet reveal a dramatic increase in the number of Tibetans shot and injured during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 78th birthday celebration in Tawu region of eastern Tibet. Leading Tibetan Rights groups now put the figure to at least 14 Tibetans who were (...)
BODH GAYA: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay reached the holy Buddhist pilgrimage site of Bodh Gaya, northern Indian state of Bihar this morning from Delhi. This visit comes in the backdrop of the series of bomb blasts that rocked the world famous Mahabodhi Temple on July 7th. Immediately upon his (...)
[Spiegel Online] By Andreas Lorenz The files, stored on three CDs, are potentially devastating to the Chinese government. They contain the reckoning of a Tibetan who once believed in the goals of the Chinese Communist Party and carved out a career within the Beijing bureaucracy. To protect his (...)
BODH GAYA: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay reached the holy Buddhist pilgrimage site of Bodh Gaya, northern Indian state of Bihar this morning from Delhi. This visit comes in the backdrop of the series of bomb blasts that rocked the world famous Mahabodhi Temple on July 7th. Immediately upon his (...)
Zurich – 16 July: Ms. Maya Graf, the Speaker of the Swiss Parliament, met with Mr. Penpa Tsering, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile based in Dharamsala in Zurich yesterday. The two speakers met informally over lunch in Zurich. Mr. Penpa Tsering briefed Ms. Maya Graf of the present (...)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama being given a traditional Tibetan welcome on his arrival at Central School for Tibetans Hunsur to inaugurate their new hall in the Tibetan Settlement in Hunsur, Karnataka, India on 14 July 2013. Photo/Tenzin Taklha/OHHDL His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving a talk to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Health Kalon Dr Tsering Wangchuk inaugurated a five-day workshop on public health organised by the health department in Dharamsala from 15 -19 July. Around 18 nurses from Tibetan schools across India and Nepal are attending the workshop. The workshop is being conducted by a team of (...)
[Foreign Policy] Speaking to the centuries-old, wrathful oracle who advises the Dalai Lama on policy. BY JEFFREY BARTHOLET Over the last two years, a sense of hopelessness has led more than a hundred Tibetans to set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. This has put Tibet’s spiritual (...)
The Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala invites application for a post of Staff Nurses at PHC Miao, Choepheling Settlements and a Pharmacist in a Hospital. Criteria: 1. GNM or B. Sc.Nursing for a Registered Nurse and B. Pharmacy or Diploma in Pharmacy for Pharmacist. (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay congratulated the president of the People’s Democratic Party of Bhutan, Mr Tshering Tobgay, for winning the parliamentary elections. Mr Tshering Tobgay, a Harvard graduate, is likely to be named prime minister of the new government, after his party won 32 (...)