[Zee News/IANS] New Delhi: The issue of Tibet should be “on the table” during talks between India and China, Tibetan political leader Lobsang Sangay said here Friday. “I believe Tibet should be on the table as a foreign issue,” Sangay told the media at the Dalai Lama’s bureau. A total of 52 Tibetans (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Pema Chhinjor of the Department of Religion and Culture, today inaugurated the month-long annual inter-nunnery winter debate session (Tib: Jang-Gun-Choe) at the Jamyang Choeling nunnery, located 15 kms from Dharamshala. Extolling the rich traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Kalon (...)
[The Economist] Party leaders eject one of their own, and prepare for their big knees-up HAVING taken nearly a year to make up its mind, China’s Communist Party has at last fixed a date for its most important gathering in a decade. Just two days after Americans elect their president on November (...)
[Want China Times] The greatest enemy of the People’s Liberation Army is corruption, says Liu Mingfu, a professor at the PLA National Defense University in Beijing. Speaking to Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao to promote his new book on China’s armed forces, Liu said it would not have been possible (...)
PARIS: The ongoing ‘adopt a Tibet village campaign’ saw six cities/towns in France’s midi-Pyrénées region coming together to mark a ceremony of adoption in Lavaur in southern France on 29 and 30 September 2012. The ceremony of adoption was held in the presence of Kasur Jetsun Pema, sister of His (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Reports coming out of Tibet say a Tibetan writer today set himself on fire and died in Driru county in Nagchu in eastern Tibet. The incident has raised the total number of self-immolations in Tibet to 53, out which 43 have died. Gudrup, 43, set himself on fire around 10 AM in (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay left Dharamsala today for a 20-day visit to the US and Europe. Sikyong Dr Sangay will deliver a talk on Middle-Way policy to a group of editors of some famous media organisations in Delhi tomorrow. He will visit Harvard, Columbia, New York, Virginia and (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile launched a global flame of truth torch relay on 6 July this year asking the United Nations to act on resolutions that it passed on Tibet following its invasion by the People’s Republic of China. The campaign demands the United Nations to discuss the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A three-day workshop for CTA officials on strategic development planning organised by the Department of Finance and funded by Norwegian Church Aid began here today. Twenty-five participants, comprising additional secretaries and joint secretaries from different departments and (...)
By Vishal Gulati, IANS SHIMLA: Tibetans, who have been forced to flee their homeland in China more than half a century ago and have settled across India since then, have been following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace and non-violence. Every year, the Central Tibetan (...)