DELHI: The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT University), Bubneshwar on July 4, 2014. The MoU was signed between Hon’ble Sikyong cum Education Kalon Dr. Lobsang Sangay and the Founder of the (...)
[The Economist] The first island visit from a Chinese minister since 1949 SINCE the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, no ministerial-level Communist official has set foot in Taiwan. That changed on June 25th when Zhang Zhijun, head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, accepted an (...)
[IANS] NEW DELHI: Experts Thursday urged the central government to revise its Tibet policy and put pressure on China to resolve the Tibetan conflict by satisfying people of the contested territory. A “sovereign” Tibet – and not China – had been India’s neighbour for many years and it was unfortunate (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A new study conducted by a group of researchers at Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) have concluded that Tibetans have a special gene, derived from an extinct human species known as Denisovan, which helps them adapt to high altitudes. The study published by Nature, an international (...)
[dalailama.com] Leh, Ladakh, India, 3 July 2014: A day and a night of light but steady rain had lowered the temperature and laid the dust as His Holiness the Dalai Lama stepped out of his residence at Shiwatsel on his way to the pavilion from where he would give the Kalachakra Empowerment for (...)
By Abanti Bhattacharya The Diplomat, June 14, 2014 Establishing Indian sovereignty in Arunachal Pradesh could solidify Chinese claims in Tibet. Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s June 8 visit to New Delhi has brought up the stapled visa issue again, but with a new twist. The Chinese now argue that the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A six-month intensive course on Tibetan language and Buddhist studies is currently underway at Gyumed Monastery’s Snowland school for Tibetan studies, based in Hunsur Tibetan settlement. A total of 17 Tibetan college students are taking part in the program, organised by the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Dolma Gyari of the Department of Home, Central Tibetan Administration met Shri. Sudhir Sharma, Honorable Minister of Himachal Pradesh for Urban Development, Housing, Town & Country Planning, yesterday. She apprised him of the issues faced by Tibetans residents in Himachal (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Mr. Penpa Tsering, Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile will attend the 79th birthday celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Ladakh, on 6 July. He will leave for Ladakh on 4 July through Jammu. He will return back to Dharamshala on 7 (...)