Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written today (15 March 2025) to Mark Carney to congratulate him on his election as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and his appointment as Prime Minister of Canada. “As someone privileged to be an honorary Canadian citizen myself,” His Holiness wrote, …

Dharamsala: Today, the fifteenth day of the new Wood-Snake Year, according to the Tibetan calendar, was the Day of Miracles. It is an occasion to celebrate the Buddha’s having performed miracles at Shravasti in response to a challenge from six rival spiritual teachers. His Holiness the Dalai Lama arriving at …

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 …