Statement delivered by Kelsang Gyaltsen, Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the TIBET INTER-GROUP CONFERENCE ON GENUINE AUTONOMY 29 November 2011 European Parliament, Brussels THE SINO-TIBETAN DIALOGUE: STATE OF PLAY AND PERSPECTIVES First of all let me express my deep appreciation and gratitude to the Tibet Inter-group of the …
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On 29th November 1956, on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha’s Parinirvana, I had the opportunity to meet Indian leaders and Buddhist representatives from many countries here inNew Delhi. At that time I gave a detailed account of the historical development of Buddhism inTibetand …
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DHARAMSHALA, November 24: Jadrel Rinpoche Jampa Trinley, the former Abbot of Tashi Lhunpo monastery and the leader of the search party for the 11th Panchen Lama, is feared dead. The website of the Central Tibetan Administration reported that news about Jadrel Rinpoche’s suspected death was revealed in recently emerged …
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Zurich, 21 November: The Swiss Foreign Ministry said that the self-immolations in Tibet and the desperation that they express are “very worrying”. The statement was issued late Monday evening further stressed that the human rights situation in China and especially of the Tibetans is regularly a subject of discussions …
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Tenzin Seldon, a Tibetan student at Stanford University majoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, has become the first Tibetan-American to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship. Last year, she won another prestigious Truman Scholarship. Seldon is the second Tibetan to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship. In 1992, Tashi Rabgey, …
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DHARAMSHALA: Echoing Australian government’s deep concern about reports of self-immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns in Tibet, Mr Michael Danby MP in the Australian Parliament has appealed to the Chinese authorities to respect the religious rights of Tibetan monks and to cease their repressive actions against those in the …
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