• Events

  • Garrison Institute complex in the upstate New York

    2012 BUDDHISM RETREAT FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Mongolian descent

    Workshop on Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhist Culture The three-day Buddhism Retreat for university students of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Mongolian descent will be held at the Garrison Institute,Garrison,NY from July 5 to 7, 2012.   The Garrison Institute is housed in a beautifully renovated 77,000 square foot former Capuchin monastery with comfortable accommodations and wonderful meeting facilities. [...]

    11 May 2012 | read more

  • Parkdale Gallery hosts first Art for Tibet event. Brian Harris' Two Nuns Laughing (1989) is one of several pieces up for auction at the Art for Tibet Canada event at Gallery 1313. Courtesy/BRIAN HARRIS

    Parkdale Gallery hosts first Art for Tibet event

      InsideToronto dot com |Oct 06, 2011 Tenzin Nawang Tekan of Etobicoke was inspired to organize an Art forTibetauction here inTorontoby a similar event she attended while visitingNew York. “It was great. There were lots of people there, they had live painting demonstrations and live music and wine,” Tekan said. “I thought it would be [...]

    06 Oct 2011 | read more

  • Cover of the book 'Across Many Mountains'

    Yangzom Brauen discusses about her book ‘Across Many Mountains’

    October 13, 2011 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York City Asia Society link http://asiasociety.org/calendars/yangzom-brauen-across-many-mountains A powerful, emotional memoir, Across Many Mountains is an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women, whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao’s Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young [...]

    29 Sep 2011 | read more

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    Film and Panel Discussion: “Himalayan Meltdown” at Asia Society tomorrow, June 14

    When: Tuesday, June 14 · 6:30pm – 8:00pm WHERE: Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, New York, NY Columbia Water Center is co-sponsoring the event. Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations will present a film and discussion called Revealed: Himalayan Meltdown. The 45-minute documentary co-produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Arrowhead Films, examines [...]

    13 Jun 2011 | read more

  • Commentaries & Opinions

  • Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet

    Moving Past the Wreckage of China’s Tibet Policy – Allen Carlson

      By Allen Carlson March 29, 2013 Beijing should give consideration to re-starting a process of engaging the Dalai Lama in dialogue, one that might even result in his return to Tibet. March 10th, the anniversary of the uprising that led to the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet in 1959, has come and gone. While [...]

    29 Mar 2013 | read more

  • A monk in Tibet

    China’s failing policy in Tibet is ‘self-defeating’ – Sophie Richardson

    by Sophie Richardson How badly does the Chinese government really want to stop Tibetan self-immolations? A campaigner suggests that the rhetoric from Beijing does not match the reality of draconian policy programmes To hear senior Chinese officials speak of “innocents” who died in flames, you might think the government is really concerned. Even as the [...]

    25 Mar 2013 | read more

  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Mexico City (2011)

    Tibet’s Voice of Realism

    Pico Iyer The Cairo Review of Global Affairs February 10, 2013 http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/Pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=299 China needs Japan, Japan needs China,” the 14th Dalai Lama declared, with immovable conviction, as I listened to him in a sunlit conference room in Yokohama last November, a great Ferris wheel turning outside and a jungle of high-rising grey skyscrapers presiding over the [...]

    17 Feb 2013 | read more

  • U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke | File Photo

    Into Tibet – Marry Kissel in the WSJ

      By MARY KISSEL THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | POLITICAL DIARY October 18, 2012 The State Department has rightly taken a beating for its mishandling of the Benghazi terrorist attack last month that killed four Americans. But as the media scrambles to cover that mess, another important—and positive—diplomatic story that’s developing out of China has [...]

    19 Oct 2012 | read more

  • Statements & Press Releases

  • Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay addressing the 52nd Tibetan Democracy Day celebrations in Dharamsala, India, on 2 September 2012/Photo/Lobsang Tsering/Tibetonline TV

    Statement of the Kashag on the Fifty-Second Anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day

      2 September 2012 On the 52nd anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day, I would like to pay the Kashag’s and my personal obeisance to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and extend heartfelt greetings to fellow Tibetans in Tibet and in exile. Today is a proud day for all Tibetans. It is the day when Tibetan [...]

    02 Sep 2012 | read more

  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy Kasur Lodi Gyari, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen at Kashag Secretariat in Dharamsala on 31 May 2012

    Kalon Tripa Accepts Resignations of Special Envoy Lodi G. Gyari and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen

    The Tibetan Leadership Reiterates its Commitment to the Middle-Way Policy PRESS RELEASE tibet.net  | June 3, 2012 Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Head of the Central Tibetan Administration, regretfully accepted the resignations of Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Lodi G. Gyari and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen. The resignations became effective June 1, 2012. Special [...]

    03 Jun 2012 | read more

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    Kashag’s Statement on the Security of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

      tibetdot net |May 20, 2012 In the recent days, there has been considerable media attention concerning reports of a possible security threat to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The security of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a matter of great concern. On 8 May 2012, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave an interview [...]

    20 May 2012 | read more

  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Special Envoy, Mr Lodi G. Gyari

    Where is China Heading on Tibet?

      Remarks by Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari to the Council on Foreign Relations Washington DC. April 23, 2012 You know that I have been leading the Tibetan delegation for the dialogue with the Chinese government for the last many years. But I am not here today to give you a report on my progress because there [...]

    24 Apr 2012 | read more

  • Other Recent Articles

  • Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay releasing the white paper, 'Why Tibet is Burning?' at the Kashag Secretariat on January 28, 2013

    CTA Releases White Paper on Self-Immolations

    For Immediate Release | February 2, 2013 2:01 pm Contact: Mr. Dhundup Gyalpo Mobile: +91 98057-88175 Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay releases the first publication of the Tibet Policy Institute on the fundamental reasons for the increasing number of self-immolations in Tibet. Dharamsala, 28th January, 2013:   This white paper examines the underlying causes of the increasing [...]

    02 Feb 2013 | read more

  • Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay / File Photo

    Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay Appeal to Tibetans Not to Celebrate Losar

    For Immediate Press Release 24 January 2013 Source  tibet.net With profound grief, I report that the number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest against repression in Tibet is now reaching 100. In 2012 alone, 83 Tibetans self-immolated, and twenty-eight of these occurred within the single month of November. (Watch Sikyong’s Video [...]

    25 Jan 2013 | read more