• Interview: The Dalai Lama – by Anirudh Mathur

      By Anirudh Mathur |27 January 2012 The Dalai Lama spoke to Anirudh Mathur about Chinese protests, the future of the Tibetan movement, the stagnancy of capitalism, and his amazing vitality. The full interview can be found in Outlook Magazine,India: A Bodhissatva is an enlightened being; one who has postponed their own Nirvana in order [...]

  • Another Tibetan shot dead by China police: rights groups – AFP reports

      27 JANUARY 2012 Chinese police shot dead another Tibetan protester in the restive Sichuan province, rights groups said Friday, bringing to at least three the number killed in deadly clashes this week. Urgen, a 20-year-old Tibetan, died Thursday inSichuan’s Rangtang county when police fired into a crowd trying to stop them from detaining another [...]

  • Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay’s statement on the recent killings of Tibetans by the PRC government

      As Chinese everywhere were celebrating the first couple of days of the Year of Dragon on January 23rd and 24th, 2012. Chinese police fired indiscriminately on hundreds of Tibetans who had gathered peacefully to claim their basic rights in Drakgo, Serthar, Ngaba, Gyarong, and other neighboring Tibetan areas. Six Tibetans were reportedly killed and [...]

  • The US expresses grave concern at the heightened tensions in Tibetan areas and calls on China to excercise restraint

      In a statement released today by the US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rightrs and US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Maria Otero, the United States Administration expressed grave concerns at the heightened tensions in Tibetan areas and urged Chinese authorities to exercise restraint as well as called to allow access [...]

  • Kalon Tripa officially launches the Canadian Tibetan Resettlement Project

      On January 21st and 22nd this year, Kalon Tripa Lobsang Sangay accompanied by Home Department Kalon Dolma Gyari and Additional Secretary, Mr. Dhondup Dorjee, visited Miao Choepheling Settlement in Arunachal Pradesh. During the visit, the Kalon Tripa formerly launched the Canadian Tibetan Resettlement Project at a gathering of over 30 local community leaders from [...]

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  • 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

  • Visions of Development: Where Have All the Yaks Gone?

    Visions of Development: Where Have All the Yaks Gone?

    Friday, May 20th: 6:00 – 9:00 PM Saturday, May 21st: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM Organizer: Trace Foundation, New York The grasslands are changing. Across the Tibetan Plateau, desertification, biodiversity loss and ecological relocations are dramatically altering the landscape, and reshaping Tibetan society. What’s happening on the grasslands today poses unprecedented challenges to Tibetan communities, [...]

    19 May 2011 | read more

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  • His Holiness the Dalai with Anirudh Mathur

    Interview: The Dalai Lama – by Anirudh Mathur

      By Anirudh Mathur |27 January 2012 The Dalai Lama spoke to Anirudh Mathur about Chinese protests, the future of the Tibetan movement, the stagnancy of capitalism, and his amazing vitality. The full interview can be found in Outlook Magazine,India: A Bodhissatva is an enlightened being; one who has postponed their own Nirvana in order [...]

    27 Jan 2012 | read more

  • The Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet

    Self-immolation tests China – by Abanti Bhattacharya

    By Abanti Bhattacharya The Asia Times Online Dec 16, 2011 Among other implications, the self-immolation of  Tibetans in China overwhelmingly suggests the failure of minority policy carved out by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to deal with the ethnic nationality question in the 1950s. The failure is particularly significant as it comes on the [...]

    15 Dec 2011 | read more

  • New York based freelance Indian writer, Mayank Chhaya, and author of an authorized biography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "Man, Monk and Mystic"

    Secular diplomacy powers Tibetans’ global outreach

    Mayank Chhaya | December 2, 2011| The Dalai Lama’s political successor and Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay has significantly stepped up his outreach as the Tibetan issue slides further into global amnesia. A dozen self-immolations by desperate Tibetans since February, 2009, including 11 since March this year alone, has not done much to focus the world’s [...]

    02 Dec 2011 | read more

  • Langru Gar or Sethar Buddhist Institute

    Beijing eyes Buddhist resurgence

      By Calum Macleod| Religion News Service, The Washington Post Monday, November 7,4:12 PM SERTHAR— Breathless but beaming, Sheng Zisu sounds confident after five months in a maze-like Buddhist encampment high on the eastern Tibetan plateau, nearly 400 miles from the nearest city. “Look around. They could never find me here,” Sheng, 27, said of [...]

    07 Nov 2011 | read more

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  • Draggo Monastery / File photo

    Up to 6 killed in Chinese firing on Tibetan protesters in Draggo, Sichuan

      (TibetanReview.net, Jan24, 2012) – In yet another firing on peaceful Tibetan protesters by Chinese security forces, a 49-year-old layman named Yonten was killed and at least three monks seriously injured on Jan 23 in Draggo (Chinese: Luhuo) County of Karze Prefecture, Sichuan Province, said Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy and several [...]

    24 Jan 2012 | read more

  • A Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Beijing built in 1694 often known as The Lama Temple or Yong Hegong Lamasery

    In China, rising religiosity among Party cadres brings warning

      ANANTH KRISHNAN The Hindu (an Indian national daily) BEIJING, December 25, 2011—On Christmas Eve, some of Beijing’s wealthiest and most well-connected residents headed to a sprawling villa on the city’s outskirts. A faux European-style mansion, which sits on an expansive property hidden from public view by high walls and tight security, on Saturday evening [...]

    25 Dec 2011 | read more

  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama with late President Václav Havel at the private residence of Havel in Prague in July 2002 ~ a picture taken by Swiss Photographer Manuel Bauer

    His Holiness the Dalai Lama Offers His Condolences at the Passing Away of President Václav Havel

      Dharamsala, India, 18 December 2011 –  His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his deep sadness at learning of the passing away of his dear friend President Václav Havel.  In a letter to his wife Mrs. Dagmar Havlova, His Holiness wrote that in his death, the world has lost a great statesman whose steadfast and [...]

    19 Dec 2011 | read more