Kunchok Dolma, a former student of Honors College at Lehman, City University of New York, has won a prestigious Clarendon Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Oxford University, England. Kunchok will be pursuing her M.Phil in International Relations at Oxford University. Clarendon Scholarships are awarded to academically excellent students with …

  Tenzin Seldon, a junior at Stanford University and a first generation Tibetan American, has been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Truman Scholarship. The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation announced that 60 students from 54 US colleges and universities were selected as 2011 Truman Scholars. The …

    DHARAMSHALA, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 — The Tibetan Parliamentary Secretariat today announced the proceedings of the Second Tibetan National General Meeting to be held in Dharamsala from 21 – 23 May 2011. The proceedings of the general meeting was finalised yesterday at a meeting of the members of …

  Monday, 28 March 2011 DHARAMSALA, In his message to the 11th Session of the 14th Assembly of the Tibetan People’s Deputies, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, presenting a letter based on sound reason and Tibet’s history and reality, said “… amendments to the Charter on this occasion must conform …

New York–On Sunday afternoon on March 13th, Representative Lobsang Nyandak met with the members of the Tibetan Association of Northern California at their new community center in Richmond. President Kaydor Aukatsang introduced Mr. Nyandak to the community and announced a brief Q&A session after the talk. Representative Mr. Nyandak focused …

  (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 …