Preventing Cultural Genocide: The Case for Genuine Autonomy for Tibet

  The following is the transcript of the speech delivered by  Special Representative of H. H. the Dalai Lama to Europe, Mr. Kelsang Gyaltsen, at the Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy & Human Rights on 31 May 2013, Berlin, Germany Just ... [read more]

Sikyong Lobsang Sangay Completes a Successful Washington D.C. Visit

  May 12, 2013 Sikyong Lobsang Sangay completed a successful visit to Washington DC. This was his third official visit to the American capital since assuming the Tibetan political leadership. The Sikyong was in Washington from May 6 to 10 ... [read more]

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Participates in an Environmental Summit in Portland

  Portland, Oregon, USA 11 May 2013 His Holiness the Dalai Lama began his fourth day in Portland, Oregon by giving a short interview to be included in an environmental documentary being created by Maitripa College. He expressed a concern ... [read more]

His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at the University of Portland’s Forum on “Spirituality and Environment”

  Portland, Oregon, USA 9 May 2013 Starting his first full day in Portland, the ‘City of Roses’, His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove to the Chiles Center of the University of Portland where he was given a traditional Tibetan ... [read more]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]