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 welcome by members of the 600 strong Tibetan community who …

  Maryland, USA 7 May 2013 Just before landing at Dulles Airport at the end of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s long flight from India yesterday, the pilot warned of heavy cloud cover over the Washington area. Today, the steady rain that fell as His Holiness drove to the Comcast …

  Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy, 10 April 2013 – Snow capped mountain peaks can be seen from the streets of Bolzano, capital city of the autonomous province of South Tyrol. On a bright spring morning today, Dr Klaus Kluther, Cabinet Chief came to escort His Holiness on the short walk …

  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, …

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 …

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 …