DHARAMSHALA: The Dharamshala Tibetan Career Centre (TCC), a joint initiative of TechnoServe and the CTA Home Department,inaugurated a Jawed-Habib certified hairdressing training course on 5 June at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, about 30 minutes away from McLeodganj. The (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Members of the 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile visited various Tibetan settlements and monasteries across India to ascertain ground difficulties facing the Tibetan community. Tibetan Parliamentarians Dolma Tsering and Geshe Tseringpo visited Dondheling settlement (Kollegal), (...)
(Dalai Lama.com) An Explanation of the Four Noble Truths and a Public Talk to Begin His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Visit to New Zealand Christchurch, New Zealand, 9 June 2013 After a long journey from India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was given a warm and friendly reception on arrival yesterday (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Mr Tashi Phuntsok, Secretary of the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration spoke to a group of Indian college students at the DIIR auditorium today. Secretary Tashi Phuntsok gave a brief introduction of the Central Tibetan (...)
By Carol J. Williams / Los Angeles Times 5:00 AM PDT, June 6, 2013 “Fire in the Land of Snow,” a documentary examining the spreading phenomenon of self-immolation protests in Tibet, provides the latest troubling chapter in the history of a solitary population inhabiting the Himalayan highlands (...)
By Sui-Lee Wee BARMA, China | Thu Jun 6, 2013 (Reuters) – In March, a young Tibetan woman named Kalkyi began making frequent visits to a monastery in Barma, a township in China’s Sichuan Province. The slim, rosy-cheeked mother of four was a devout Tibetan Buddhist, a close relative says. But (...)
Press Release 6 June 2013 The Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteurs issued a joint communication on arbitrary detentions and rights to freedom of peaceful assembly at the 23th regular session of the UN Human (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Kashag of the Central Tibetan Administration has approved 32% increase over the basic salary of CTA staff effective 1 April 2013. This is an interim relief for the CTA staff until the 5th Pay Commission is constituted. The CTA recently also pledged an increase in the monthly (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The newly-appointed Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court, Mr Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar, visited the Tibetan community in Dharamshala today. He met His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the morning at a private audience. Justice Khanwilkar was accompanied by the local Sub-divisional (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Tibetans in Dharamshala held a prayer service on 5 June to express solidarity with the Tibetan self-immolators especially Tenzin Sherab who burned himself on 27 May. The prayer service was organised by the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration. (...)