THE DALAI LAMA TRUST GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP 2017-18. The Dalai Lama Trust has announced its seventh round of annual graduate scholarship grants for the academic year 2017-18. Ten to fifteen exceptional candidates of Tibetan descent will be selected to receive scholarship awards of up to US$10,000. The deadline for submission of …

Office of Tibet, Washington DC has given warm send off to Mr. Tenzin Igyen la, Special Assistant to the Representative. He has served in this office for the last two years up to February 24, 2017 and now transferred to Department of Home, Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India. We …

Wednesday, February 15, the Office of Tibet, Washington DC mourns the demise of Kyabje Nyagre Khentrul Ngawang Gelek Rinpoche, who passed away today at 6:00 a.m. CST. Rinpoche was born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1939, and was recognized as an incarnation of Nyagre Khentrul Rinpoche of Drepung Monastic University at …

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Washington DC. In response to written questions on Tibet from members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the process of confirmation of Rex Tillerson, Cabinet nominee of President Trump for the Secretary of State, who got confirmed today by the Senate, he responded favorably to …

Thursday, January 19, 2017, the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Mr. Penpa Tsering today met with the Congressman Salud Carbajal, the member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 24th district. The district contains all of Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County as well the …