DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile today passed a resolution expressing deep sadness at the passing away of former RSS chief Mr Kuppalli Sitaramayya Sudarshan. He breathed his last at the age of 81 in Raipur, Chattisgarh, on 15 September. “Shri K S Sudarshan has dedicated more than six (...)
BRUSSELS: The Tibetan flame of truth torch relay led Ven. Thupten Wangchen, member of Tibetan Parliament, reached Brussels from London yesterday. The president of Tibetan community and the executive members of Tibetan organisations in Belgium received the torch relay at Bassillique de (...)
MUSSOORIE: His Holiness the Dalai Lama was the Chief Guest at the Tibetan Homes Foundation (THF) Golden Jubilee celebrations in Happy Valley, Mussoorie on 17 September. Heavy rain from early in the morning had left the ground wet, which did nothing to prevent the stirring display as teams of (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan community based in Majnu Ka Tilla in Delhi, which has been facing eviction from the locality, got a major relief from a new court order of 8 September to regularise their stay. In a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Mr Parlad Singh Sawhney, member of (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Mr Yashwant Sinha, Member of Indian Parliament and former union minister for finance and external affairs, visited the Tibetan community in Dharamsala to express solidarity with Tibetans in view of the prevailing critical situation in Tibet. Addressing senior officials of the (...)
By Vishal Gulati Dharamsala, Sep 15 (IANS) Tibetans in exile will go into a special session this month to discuss the burning issue of self-immolations by a growing number of Buddhist activists in Tibet. The first session was held here in November 2008 after the riots that erupted in Lhasa had (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The US government has reiterated its call for substantive Sino-Tibetan dialogue towards reaching a lasting solution to the long-standing problems facing Tibet. In its annual ‘Report on Tibetan Negotiations’ released on 12 September, the US State Department said: “In 2011, Chinese (...)
Thursday, September 13, 2012 Jodi Seth, (202) 224-4159 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced a resolution to honor the contributions of Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari as Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and in (...)
Xi Jinping, China’s president-in-waiting, who has not been seen in public for two weeks, was under intense pressure from within the Communist party before he disappeared, the Daily Telegraph has been told. By Malcolm Moore, BeijingTHE TELEGRAPH14 Sep 2012 Xi Jinping, 59, came under attack from (...)
DEHRADUN (dalailama.com) – After spending the night at Mindrolling Monastery, in Clement Town, Dehra Dun, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s first engagement today (14 September) was to visit the Drukpa Kagyu Tongmonling Monastery nearby, where he paid his respects. Local Tibetans, young and old lined (...)