(by Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books, March 19, 2011) It’s been startling to witness mass demonstrations in countries across the Middle East for freedom from autocracy, while, in the Tibetan community, a die-hard champion of “people power” tries to dethrone himself and his people keep asking …

  (Bhaskar Roy, Chennai Center for China Studies, March 17, 2011) Although the 14th Dalai Lama has been talking about stepping down from the leadership of the Tibetan Government in Exile for some time, his final decision announced on March 10, did shock his people to an extent, and posed …

NEW YORK, MARCH 18TH: On Saturday March 12th, there was an unusual event at TA Vietnamese restaurant in San Jose, California. It was the first ever Vietnamese-Tibetan event, a special dinner and concert organised by Mrs. Bickieu Pham, a member of the Vietnamese community, with the support of the Office …

DHARAMSHALA, MARCH 17TH: A monk of Kirti monastery in Ngaba county in northeastern Tibet set himself on fire yesterday (16 March) in remembrance of those Tibetans killed in the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown in the region on that day in 2008, monks at Kirti monastery in Dharamsala said quoting eye-witnesses …

Geneva, 16 March: “As people (Tibetan nomads) are moved to urban areas, there is very little primary source of employment resulting in urban poverty,” said Prof. Andrew Fisher, a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. He is a specialist on issues of population, poverty and …

March 14th 2011 To the members of the Fourteenth Assembly of the Tibetan People’s Deputies, It is common knowledge that ancient Tibet, consisting of three provinces (Cholkha-sum) was ruled by a line of forty-two Tibetan kings beginning with Nyatri Tsenpo (127 BCE), and ending with Tri Ralpachen (838 CE). Their …