Minneapolis: Representatives from twenty-one Tibetan Associations gathered at Minneapolis for the 17th North American Tibetan Association Conference, which is being held, from September 01-03, 2018. In his inaugural address, Kalon Karma Gelek Yuthok, the Chief Guest and representative of Kashag urged the Tibetans to make external, inner and secret offerings for His Holiness’ long life. He said that external offering could be praying …
Read More »Yuthok Jigmie Dorji Passes Away in Seattle, USA 1931 2018
The first Workshop on Secular Ethics and Youth Leadership concludes with the blessing of Gyalwang Karmapa Rinpoche.
His Eminence Gyalwang Karmapa Rinpoche kindly graced the closing ceremony of the ‘Workshop on Secular Ethics and Youth Leadership’ with his presence and distributed ‘Certificate of Participation’ to the participants. In his address, he emphasized that teaching of Secular Ethics is the wish of H.H.The Dalai Lama and therefore Karma …
Read More »New guidelines regarding Identity Certificate (IC) renewal/extension for Tibetans living abroad on IC.
No Hand-written Identity Certificate is valid for travel according to the the International regulations and ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation), except in rare cases of emergency with limited validity of only one-time return to India to enable renewal of machine-readable IC. No Hand-written Endorsement of Extension on the already expired …
Read More »Representative Ngodup Tsering attends First-Ever Ministerial To Advance Religious Freedom, convened by the US State Department.
Washington DC: Demo Rinpoche and Representative Ngodup Tsering attended the first ever Ministerial to advance religious freedom, convened by US state department from 24-26th July. The Ministerial was held in the State Department building in Washington DC. Today marks the first day of MINISTERIAL which was attended by more than four …
Read More »Let the Dalai Lama go Home
By: Nancy Pelosi and James McGovern, July 13, 2018, Boston Globe Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, celebrated his 83rd birthday last week. What a wonderful gift it would be if China would treat the Tibetan people with the dignity and respect they deserve, and let the Dalai Lama go home …
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