Dharamshala: Today is the fifteenth day of the first month of the Tibetan Calendar, and the culmination of the annual Great Prayer Festival (Monlam Chenmo), a two-week-long festival that begins with the Tibetan New Year. In accordance with our tradition of dedicating the merit gained from these prayers for the …

Dharamshala: His Excellency Andrej Kiska, the former President of Slovakia, alongside Csaba Kiss, Coordinator of the Tibet Support Group, and Thinley Chukki, Representative of OOT Geneva, visited the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile on 7 March 2025. The delegation met with Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, Deputy Speaker Dolma Tsering Teykhang, and members of …

Dharamshala: On the morning of 10 March 2025, the Central Tibetan Administration, together with a high-level delegation from Estonia and Slovakia, marked the 66th Tibetan National Uprising Day in Dharamshala, to commemorate the Tibetan martyrs who, on this day in 1959, assembled in Lhasa to protest the illegal occupation of …

We are commemorating today a momentous occasion in the history of our nation, marking the 66th anniversary of the 10th of March 1959, when Tibetans from all the three provinces, being of one mind, united in a non-violent, spontaneous action to stage an uprising against the violent mentality and perpetrations …

On this date, sixty-six years ago, in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, Tibetans from all three provinces unitedly rose up against the illegal occupation of Tibet and China’s brutal inhumane policies and practices in Tibet. Under the violent suppression by Chinese forces, over a million Tibetans lost their precious lives and forced …

Dharamshala: The Department of Religion and Culture, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), conducted a prayer service lasting one hour to honour the sacrifices made by peaceful Tibetan protesters who participated in the 1989 demonstrations against the Chinese government. In 1989, thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of Lhasa to voice …