By Indo-Asian News Service Even before Narendra Modi became the prime minister, he did something that none of the governments before his could do in the past 50 years. And this historically path-breaking move has remained largely out of sight of India’s fickle media. Pooh-poohing the (...)
MOSCOW: Former Kalon Tripa Ven. Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche visited Russian Federation from 26-May – 7 June at the invitation extended by the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, a branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kalmyk Buddhist Temple and Save Tibet Foundation in Moscow. (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Education is our priority no.1 and I continue to devote 25% to 30% of my time as Sikyong towards enhancing the education system, said Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay, in an impassioned speech given today at the conclusion of a workshop for primary school teachers. The workshop was (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The US has urged China to engage in unconditional talks with His Holiness the Dalai Lama or his representatives as the Tibetan administration in India reinvigorated its effort to achieve genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people through the Middle Way policy. The Department of (...)
[Deutsche Welle] The leader of Tibet’s exiled government, Lobsang Sangay, spoke with DW about his new campaign aimed at resuming long-stalled talks with Beijing and softening China’s handling of his homeland. The prime minister of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has reaffirmed his (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Major international news media yesterday covered the launch of the Central Tibetan Administration’s renewed Middle Way Approach international campaign to achieve genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people through dialogue with China. His Holiness the Dalai Lama blessed campaign (...)
Bratislava, 5 June: Five Slovakian Parliamentarians including the Chairman of the Slovakian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee welcomed the Tibetan Parliamentary Delegation today at the Slovakian Parliament in Bratislava. Mr. Martin Poliacik, the chairman of the Tibet Group of the Slovakian (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for making the documentary ‘Leaving Fear Behind’ was released from Chinese prison yesterday. According to a source from the region, Dhondup Wangchen reached his home in Bayen in Sangchu county at around (...)
By M K Bhadrakumar Asiatimes After an interlude of some 54 years, China is making another overture toward India. Relations are once again at a crossroads. In 1960, then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai took the initiative to visit Delhi even as storm clouds were gathering on the horizon over the two (...)