San Jose, CA: In a meeting organised by the Global Leadership Incubator (GLI) organisation on 25 February, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay met with leaders of Silicon Valley to discuss how critical it is to preserve Tibetan culture and provide education to Tibetan (...)
[Northampton Newspaper] Written by NICHOLAS BIEBER The Dalai Lama’s representative will be in Northampton next week to raise the Tibetan flag. Thubten Samdup will join Mayor Les Marriott and Mayoress Lisa Marriott for the event at the Guildhall on Tuesday at midday. Caroline Scattergood, a Free (...)
[dalailama.com] Los Angeles, CA, USA, 27 February 2014 – After young children dressed in their Tibetan best had sung for him and Tenzin Dorjee, President of Tibetan Association of Southern California had expressed words of welcome, His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed the Tibetans assembled (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The US State Department in its annual human rights report released yesterday said the Chinese government engaged in severe human rights abuses in Tibet. US Secretary of State John Kerry released the report, titled ‘Annual Country Reports on Human Rights’, at the State Department. The (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Dhardon Sharling, a member of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, attended the 6th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in Geneva on 25 February. The summit, held on the eve of the UN Human Rights Council’s annual session in March, shone spotlight on urgent human rights situations (...)
[dalailama.com] Los Angeles, CA, USA, 26 February 2014 - Skies over Los Angeles were uncharacteristically grey with rain forecast for today or tomorrow as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove to the Huffington Post studio this morning. Senior Editor Willow Bay talked to him in an interview that was (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), FFR Division, at the instance of the Department of Home, Central Tibetan Administration, convened a meeting of the official of East Asia Division, MEA, Government of India, concerned state government department officials of Maharastra, Himachal (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Outgoing US ambassador to China Gary Locke on Thursday urged Beijing to improve its human rights record, in parting remarks just days before he is to leave the country, AFP news agency reported. Rights are “universal” values that represent more than economic benefits, he said, (...)
[dalailama.com] Los Angeles, CA, USA, 25 February 2014 – After a short flight from San Jose to Los Angeles today, His Holiness the Dalai Lama went directly to the Inglewood Forum, venue his public talk on ‘Non-violence and the Effects of Compassion in the 21st Century’. Many thousands gathered to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetans in exile gave me real understanding of the issue of Tibet, said a Chinese who is connected with a Sino-Tibetan friendship association in Australia. Speaking at the friendship association’s meeting in Sydney on 23 February, (...)