Tibetoday News Archive
 China takes control of Tibetan monasteries to put down unrest
[Thursday,16 February 2012, PTI] The Chinese government is establishing management committees in every monastery in Tibet to strengthen its controls, amid a spate of suicides by Buddhist monks and reports of growing unrest among them.A management committee has been established in every monastery in the Tibet Autonomous Region to oversee general monastery affairs...
Indian police detain Tibetans outside China embassy
[Thursday,16 February 2012, AFP] Indian police detained 35 Tibetan students on Thursday at a protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi against Beijing's rule over Tibet.Several young protesters from India's large Tibetan exile community climbed onto police vans before officers dragged them into the vehicles...
China asks US to honour its commitment on Tibet and Taiwan
[Thursday,16 February 2012, PTI] Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping has asked the US to honour its commitment of 'One- China' policy on Taiwan and oppose the Tibetan independence. "We hope that the US will truly honour its commitment on recognising Tibet as part of China and opposing Tibet independence and will handle Tibet-related issues in a prudent and proper manner,"...
Rare visit to remote Chinese region shows depth of Tibetan despair
[Thursday,16 February 2012,MaClatchy Newspaper] The monk reached into the folds of his red robe, pulled out a small notebook, and gently slipped from its pages a tiny photograph. The man in the creased picture was a relative. He used to be a fellow monk at the monastery perched in snow-wrapped mountains outside the town of Aba. Then a Chinese security officer killed him, the monk said...
China appoints new head of restive Tibetan area
[Wedesday,15 February 2012, AFP] Beijing has appointed a career law enforcement official to head an ethnically Tibetan area of southwest China where a number of monks and nuns have self-immolated in recent months.An official Communist Party website for Sichuan province's Aba prefecture -- scene of some of the worst protests against Chinese rule over the past year...
Kalon Tripa Launches Tibet Policy Institute
[Wedesday,15 February 2012, TibetNet] Inaugurating the Tibet Policy Institute at the Kashag Secretariat today, Kalon Tripa said the institute aims to carry out comprehensive research works on all aspect of Tibet-related issues, which he underlined would help the administration in framing policies for the next fifty years and making the Tibet..
Tibetan exile warns of crackdown
[Wedesday,15 February 2012, AP] Upcoming Tibetan New Year's celebrations appear poised to bring more bloodshed to the troubled Himalayan region, the head of Tibet's exile government said Tuesday, warning that China has sealed off the regions ahead of a crackdown. Already facing nearly two dozen self-immolations, many by Buddhist monks and nuns calling for Tibetan freedom...
Another Tibetan monk sets fire to himself in China
[Monday,13 February 2012, Reuters] An ethnic Tibetan monk set fire to himself in southwestern China on Monday, an overseas Tibetan rights group said, in the latest reported incident of an extreme form of anti-Chinese protest. The Free Tibet group said the 19-year-old monk, Lobsang Gyatso, set fire to himself in Aba county, known as Ngaba in Tibetan...
Tibet protesters arrested in US amid China visit
[Monday,13 February 2012, AFP] Police on Monday arrested activists who unfurled a banner reading, "Tibet Will be Free," on a major Washington bridge during a closely watched visit by China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping. Officers briefly took four people into custody after they rappelled down the Arlington Memorial Bridge...
China 'confirms' death of self-immolation Tibet nun
[Monday,13 February 2012, BBC News] A Tibetan nun has been confirmed dead after setting herself alight in south-western China, officials say, in the latest apparent protest against rule from Beijing. State news agency Xinhua identified the nun in Aba prefecture, Sichuan province as 19-year-old Tenzin Choedron. Rights groups say she had shouted slogans against the Chinese government before self-immolating on Saturday...
Tibetan nun sets herself on fire
[Sunday,12 February 2012, AP] An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing's handling of its vast Tibetan regions, an overseas rights group said Sunday. Free Tibet said in a statement that the nun set herself ablaze Saturday and was believed to have survived...
China officials asked to prepare for war in Tibet
[Saturday,11 February 2012, PTI] Describing the situation in Tibet as "grave", China has ordered authorities there to prepare themselves for "a war against secessionist sabotage" by the Dalai Lama amid reports that security forces shot dead two Tibetans protesters. Officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region have been ordered to recognise the "grave situation"...
US to raise human rights when China's Xi visits
[Saturday,11 February 2012, AP] The White House said Friday it won't recoil from raising grave human rights concerns during a getting-acquainted visit next week by China's likely future leader. China's Vice President Xi Jinping's trip would be for him to understand issues that are important to America...
One day we will enter free Tibet, hopes Archbishop Tutu
[Friday,10 February 2012, PTI] Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has described Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama as the "most peace loving person on the earth," who is not a "separatist," and asked China to grant Tibet autonomy. "I want to tell Beijing that his Holiness (Dalai Lama) is the most peace loving person on the earth. He has no army. He does not command people with guns. He is not a separatist," Tutu...
Report says 2 Tibetans killed by security forces
[Friday,10 February 2012, AP] Chinese security forces shot dead two Tibetan brothers who had been on the run since taking part in anti-government protests two weeks ago in southwest China, a U.S.-funded broadcaster reported Friday.Radio Free Asia said the two - 40-year-old monk Yeshe Rigsal and his 38-year-old brother...
China fires Tibet officials over unrest
[Thursday,09 February 2012, AFP] Tibet's top leader has fired three officials for failing to crack down on unrest in the region, state press said Thursday, a day after another Tibetan set himself alight to protest China's rule.Chen Quanguo, Communist Party head of Tibet, announced the sackings...
Another Tibetan sets himself on fire in China
[Thursday,09 February 2012, AP] Another Tibetan has set himself on fire in western China to protest government policies while thousands marched in another part of China to show support for their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a report said. U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said a man, apparently a monk, set himself on fire in Sichuan province's...
Fresh protests in Tibet, Thousands demand the Dalai Lama’s return in Yushul
[Thursday,09 February 2012, Phayul] Thousands of Tibetans in the Yushul area of eastern Tibet led a peaceful protest, carrying banners demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and respect for Tibetan lives yesterday. The protest coincided with the call for a global vigil on February 8 by the exile Tibetan leadership in solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet...
Ready to offer help to ease tensions over Tibet: Krishna
[Thursday,09 February 2012, PTI] Describing Tibet issue as an internal affair of China, India said it was “willing to offer any help” to ease the recent spurt in tensions, striking a cautious note on the self immolations by Buddhist monks and subsequent violence. External affairs minister, SM Krishna who held extensive talks with four senior Chinese leaders today...
Tibetans in Mumbai sign petition, protest for peace in their country
[Thursday,09 February 2012, HT] Amid the din of protest slogans and cries for independence, more than 30 Tibetans in the city participated in a peace protest at the Azad Maidan grounds on Wednesday. Last week, the Central Tibetan Administration had called for worldwide vigils on February 8 in view of the critical situation in Tibet...
Exile prime minister decries Chinese rule in Tibet
[Wednesday,08 February 2012, AP] Chinese repression has lead to the self-immolations of nearly two dozen Tibetans and deadly clashes with Chinese authorities, the head of Tibet's government-in-exile said Wednesday."Tibetans inside Tibet are giving up their lives. They're saying, 'I choose to die,'"...
Karmapa urges China to acknowledge the real human distress of Tibetans
[Wednesday,08 February 2012, HT] Tibetan Spiritual Leader, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje has urged China to acknowledge the real human distress of Tibetans and take full responsibility for what is happening in Tibet. “It would lay a wise basis for building mutual trust between Tibetans and the Chinese government,” said the Karmapa...
China vows to continue crackdown on Tibetan unrest
[Tuesday,07 February 2012, AP] China on Tuesday vowed to crack down on unrest in Tibetan areas and accused overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the recent violence. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said clashes last month between Tibetans and security forces in Sichuan province were the work of criminals...
Tibet exiles say repression in China at new heights
[Tuesday,07 February 2012, AFP] A continuing spate of self-immolations by Tibetans in China are a desperate response to "new levels" of Chinese persecution, the Tibet government-in-exile said Monday. In a statement from its seat in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala, the exiled government urged the international community to "directly and immediately engage"...
China says Tibet facing "urgent" task to maintain stability
[Monday,06 February 2012, Reuters] China's mountainous region of Tibet is facing an urgent task to maintain stability, and all government workers must be on their highest guard ahead of the Tibetan New Year and the fourth anniversary of riots there, a top newspaper said on Monday.China has stepped up security in what it calls the Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan parts of the country...
'Arab Spring is coming to China,' John McCain tells Chinese Foreign Minister
[Sunday,05 February 2012, Reuters] U.S. Senator John McCain warned China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that "the Arab Spring is coming to China" and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country.Zhang, speaking with McCain on a panel at the high-level Munich security conference, dismissed his comments about a looming Chinese Arab Spring as "no more than fantasy"...
Three Tibetans self-immolate in western China
[Sunday,05 February 2012, Reuters] Three Tibetans in southwestern China have set themselves ablaze in protest against Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, the latest in a series of self-immolations over the past year. The three set themselves on fire on Friday in Seda county, known as Serthar...
China gets restive taste of post-Dalai Lama era
[Friday,03 February 2012, Reuters] China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set themselves on fire and other forms of protest. Even so, China's hardline rulers may have reason to miss him when he's gone...
China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest
[Friday,03 February 2012, Guardian.co.uk] Chinese officials cut off mobile phone and internet connections to areas where Tibetans were shot dead amid unrest last month, state media has reported. Officials say security forces fired in self-defence after mobs of rioters attacked police and official buildings in the south-western province of Sichuan, resulting in two deaths...
Photos of Tibet crackdown emerge from scene of recent shooting
[Friday,03 February 2012, ICT] Vivid images have emerged from Tibet of a violent police response to a protest by Tibetans in Serthar (Chinese: Seda), Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham), on January 24. The images, which show a Tibetan man being beaten and dragged along the ground by armed police...
100 Tibetan Protesters Held
[Thursday,02 February 2012, RFA] More than a week after the protests in a troubled Chinese province, news surfaces about the number detained. More than 100 Tibetan protesters who fled the scene of a shooting last week by Chinese police have been taken into custody together with an unknown number of those wounded in the gunfire, according to Tibetan sources...
US Senators introduce resolution in Congress on Tibet
[Thursday,02 February 2012, PTI] Voicing serious concern over the deteriorating situation in Tibet, six top American Senators have introduced a resolution in the US Congress asking China to suspend implementation of religious control regulations and immediately start a dialogue with the Dalai Lama...
China says separatists sparked violence in Sichuan
[Thursday,02 February 2012, AP] Tibetan separatists who attacked police stations with rocks and molotov cocktails sparked last week's deadly violence in Sichuan, the Chinese government said Wednesday, countering claims by rights groups that police fired on unarmed protesters...
Kalachakra surplus donations go to charitable organizations
[Thursday,02 February 2012, Phayul] The organising committee of the 32nd Kalachakra formally released the financial statement of the ten-day teachings at a press conference held earlier today.The organisers said that a total income of Rs 32,93,33,249.00...
China steps up surveillance of Tibetan monasteries
[Tuesday,31 January 2012, AFP] A top official in Tibet's capital has asked authorities to dispatch police to monasteries and step up security on main roads after violent clashes in Tibetan-inhabited areas left at least two dead. Qi Zhala, Lhasa's Communist Party chief, also ordered a crackdown on "separatist" activities he linked to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama...
CNN crew detained amid Chinese Tibet crackdown
[Tuesday,31 January 2012, CNN] It's after 10 p.m. when we see a light in the distance. We've traveled for more than three hours up a windy, icy road in western China. Our hope is to get to the Tibetan autonomous zone, in the mountainous region of Sichuan province, an area reportedly locked in an ever-growing...
Dalai Lama and West "distorting protests" to tarnish China
[Monday,30 January 2012, Reuters] The Tibetan government-in-exile has colluded with Western governments to distort a recent string of police shootings in Tibetan areas of China in a bid to discredit the government, an official Chinese newspaper said on Monday. Protests by ethnic Tibetans, who accuse Chinese authorities of stifling their traditions...
China boosts police presence in restless Xinjiang
[Monday,30 January 2012, AP] Thousands of additional police officers are being dispatched to combat religious extremism and other security concerns in China's volatile, heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media reported...
Despair, crackdowns breed more violence in Tibet
[Sunday,29 January 2012, AP] A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause...
Tibetan monasteries forced to display communist leaders' photos
[Sunday,29 January 2012, Phayu] Even as Chinese security personnel were shooting unarmed Tibetan protesters in eastern Tibet on January 23, Chinese authorities in central Tibet were distributing Chinese flags and photos of China’s leaders to local Tibetans...
Another Tibetan shot dead by China police
[Friday,27 January 2012, AFP] Chinese police shot dead another Tibetan protester in the restive Sichuan province, rights groups said Friday, bringing to at least three the number killed in deadly clashes this week. Urgen, a 20-year-old Tibetan, died Thursday in Sichuan's Rangtang county when police fired into a crowd trying to stop them from detaining another man...
Tibetan Man Arrested at Barkhor Square in Lhasa
[Friday,27 January 2012, TCHRD] A Tibetan man was arrested for distributing leaflets at Barkhor Square in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. The arrest of Namkha Gyaltsen, aged 25, happened at around 5 pm (Tibet Local Time) on 25 January 2012. Sources informed TCHRD that police officers arrested Namkha Gyaltsen near the Nang-tse-shak building at Barkhor as he distributed leaflets...
The Dalai Lama receives Dayawati Modi Award
[Saturday,03 November 2011, Phayul] His Holiness the Dalai Lama received the Dayawati Modi Award for Art, Culture and Education 2011 in the Indian capital New Delhi, Friday for his “contribution towards universal peace, tolerance and social justice”.At a special ceremony held in honour of the Tibetan leader, the Dayawati Modi Foundation presented the award comprising of a cash prize...
I consider myself as a son of India: Dalai Lama
[Friday,02 November 2011, TOI] Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Thursday expressed his disappointment over corruption that was spreading like a cancerous disease and urged youths to work towards building a healthy society. Addressing a gathering at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, the Dalai Lama expressed his bewilderment over how some Indians...
Twelfth Tibetan sets himself ablaze in China - group
[Friday,02 November 2011, Reuters] A former Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire in the mountainous region of Tibet, the 12th Tibetan this year to resort to the extreme form of protest in China, an overseas advocacy group said on Friday. Tenzin Phuntsog set himself ablaze in the Changdu prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region ...
India to host new world Buddhist body
[Thursday,01 November 2011, TNN] In an important move that may provide a joint platform to Buddhist communities across the world and also impact geo-politics in Asia, the first Global Buddhist Congregation, which led to a diplomatic row between India and China, concluded here on Wednesday with a decision to set up a new international Buddhist organization in India...
Tibetan Buddhist leader shies from mantle of power
[Thursday,01 November 2011, Reuters] Tibet's Karmapa Lama is revered by followers as a 900-year-old soul in the body of a youth, and tipped to assume the mantle of Tibetan spiritual leadership when the present Dalai Lama dies. But the 26-year-old who is the current embodiment of the Karmapa Lama, a sacred role in Tibetan Buddhism, shies from the expectations that surround him...
“Tibetans lack a sincere and willing partner for an honest dialogue,” says His Holiness’ Envoy
[Wednesday,30 November 2011, TibetNet] In a statement at the Tibet Intergroup Conference on Genuine Autonomy hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels, envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kelsang Gyaltsen categorically said that China lacks “political will” in resolving the Tibet issue through negotiations on the proposed Middle Way Approach...
Exiled Tibetans say two monks from China monastery detained
[Tuesday,29 November 2011, Reuters] Security forces have detained two Tibetan monks from a monastery in southwestern China that has been at the centre of defiance against Chinese religious controls, three exiled Tibetans told Reuters, citing sources there. Gyamtso, also known as Gyatso, and Losang Gendun, or Lobsang Gendun, were detained at the Kirti monastery in China's Aba prefecture, a heavily ethnic Tibetan part of Sichuan province that has been the site...
Chinese TV Host Says Regime Nearly Bankrupt
[Tuesday,29 November 2011, The Epoch Times] China’s economy has a reputation for being strong and prosperous, but according to a well-known Chinese television personality the country’s Gross Domestic Product is going in reverse. Larry Lang, chair professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said in a lecture that he didn’t think was being recorded that the Chinese regime is in a serious economic crisis...
Exiled Tibetan PM urges EU to remember rights in China
[Tuesday,29 November 2011, AFP] Tibet's prime minister-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, urged Europe on Monday to remember human rights concerns in its dealings with China, which EU governments hope could help in their debt crisis. "We have always said that the economic interests of any country are important but at the same time human rights are equally important...
Tibetans assail Beijing’s bid to curb Dalai Lama’s activities
[Tuesday,29 November 2011, TNN] A series of controversies raised by China implicating the global Buddhist congregation has enraged the Tibetan administration and community in exile, as this has scraped the wound caused by the recent self-immolations by monks inside Tibet. In an interaction with TOI on Sunday, Tibetan officials criticized the continuous efforts of China to curb the activities and interactions of Dalai Lama with leaders of various countries...
His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s Message to the Global Buddhist Congregation
[Monday,28 November 2011, Dalailama.com] 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 in New Delhi. At that time I gave a detailed account of the historical development of Buddhism in Tibet and the unique Indo-Tibetan relationship...
India-China meeting off over Dalai Lama: source
[Sunday,27 November 2011, AFP]A meeting between Indian and Chinese diplomats has been cancelled after Beijing objected to a scheduled speech in New Delhi by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, officials said Sunday. A senior Indian foreign ministry official, who declined to be named, said talks on long-standing border issues that were slated to begin in New Delhi on Monday had been called off...
China's moral authority hinges on finding solution to issue of Tibet, says Kalon Tripa
[Sunday,27 November 2011, TibetNet] In an interview with Deutsche Welle in Berlin on Thursday, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay said that China's moral authority in the world hinged upon it finding a solution to the Tibetan question. Without morality, Beijing will be feared perhaps but it won't be respected, he said, and yet this is intrinsic to great power status...
China official blames Tibetan lama for immolations
[Friday,25 November 2011, AFP] A Chinese religious official has accused a high-ranking Tibetan Buddhist close to the Dalai Lama of using extremist teachings to push monks to set fire to themselves, state media reported Friday. Nine Buddhist monks and two nuns have set themselves alight in ethnically Tibetan parts of southwest China this year in protest at religious repression...
Tibet group says Nepal sent refugee back to China
[Thursday,24 November 2011, PTI] Nepal forcibly repatriated a Tibetan refugee after he escaped from China, a Tibetan exile group said on Thursday, more than one year after a similar claim sparked international condemnation. The refugee, a 20-year-old known as Tashi, crossed into western Nepal with five other Tibetans in September but was separated from them en route to Kathmandu, according to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT)...
China now rehearses capture of Tibet passes
[Wednesday,23 November 2011, Indian Express] A year after conducting its first live military exercise in Tibet, China has for the first time rehearsed capture of mountain passes at heights beyond 5,000 metres with the help of armoured vehicles and airborne troops. The Chinese Defence Ministry makes this claim in a short official report that describes the exercise as the “first joint actual-troop drill of the PLA air and ground troops...
Tibetan Student Named a Rhodes Scholar
[Wednesday,23 November 2011, VoA] Tenzin Seldon, a senior at Stanford University has been named a Rhodes scholar. The 22-year-old Tibetan student is one of the 32 Americans awarded with the Rhodes scholarship this year.Tenzin has become the second Tibetan to receive the internationally prestigious award. Dr.Tashi Rabgey, a visiting scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University and co-founder of Machik...
Swiss Foreign Ministry says the present situation in Tibet is “very worrying”
[Tuesday,22 November 2011, TibetNet] 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 between Switzerland and the Chinese authorities...
Video purports to show Tibetan nun self-immolating
[Tuesday,22 November 2011, AFP] Even under the best circumstances, stepping into a role previously occupied by someone considered to be a living god would have required a steep learning curve. But less than 100 days after Lobsang Sangay was elected “prime minister” of the Tibetan government in exile, the self-immolation of at least 11 Tibetans has confronted him with a remarkable challenge...
Kalon Tripa calls on West to speak out on repression
[Saturday,19 November 2011, The Independent] Even under the best circumstances, stepping into a role previously occupied by someone considered to be a living god would have required a steep learning curve. But less than 100 days after Lobsang Sangay was elected “prime minister” of the Tibetan government in exile, the self-immolation of at least 11 Tibetans has confronted him with a remarkable challenge...
Dalai Lama questions wisdom of self-immolations
[Saturday,19 November 2011, BBC News] The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says he is very worried about the growing number of monks and nuns setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule in Tibet. He told the BBC he was not encouraging such actions - saying there was no doubt they required courage, but questioning how effective they were...
Wen Jiabao to visit Nepal next month
[Friday,18 November 2011, HT] After a flurry of high-level visits, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao will visit Nepal next month. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also likely to visit the country in March next year.According to officials in Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s office, Wen will arrive in Kathmandu on 20 December on a three-day trip...
Members of Congress Ask US Ambassador to Visit Tibet
[Friday,18 November 2011, TibetNet] Three members of the United States Congress, Frank R. Wolf, James P. McGovern, and Joseph Pitts, have sent a letter on 17 November 2011 to US Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, asking him to visit Tibet in the light of the recent self immolations and "publicly use your platform as Ambassador to make it clear to the Tibetan people that they have a friend in the United States of America." ..
Exiled Tibetan premier to make first European tour
[Friday,18 November 2011, AFP] Tibet's prime minister-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, is to embark next week on his first European tour since he was elected in April, amid increasing alarm over a wave of nun and monk immolations. Sangay, who was elected to the government-in-exile's new post as the Dalai Lama tries to ease out of his political role...
Police say man set himself on fire in Tiananmen
[Friday,18 November 2011, AP] Police in Beijing confirmed Thursday that a man set himself on fire last month over a court dispute in a rare case of such protest in Tiananmen Square, the politically sensitive center of China's capital. The police said officers at the scene quickly extinguished the fire and that the 42-year-old man...
Tibetan regions of China under virtual ‘martial law,’ monk says
[Thursday,17 November 2011, The Star] A leading Tibetan monk claimed Wednesday that China has now put its most restive region under undeclared martial law. The claim comes as a wave of self-immolations is sweeping Tibetan areas in China’s Sichuan province. Eleven monks, former monks and nuns have set themselves on fire since March to protest what they claim is China’s increasingly heavy-handed repression in Tibetan areas...
Dialogue only way to resolve issues, says Dalai Lama
[Wednesday,16 November 2011, The Hindu] The Dalai Lama on Wednesday said dialogue was the only way to resolve any issue. He said Jammu and Kashmir enjoyed rule of law, open society and freedom of speech. Chinese incursions, he said, were of a routine nature. The Tibetan religious leader, who arrived in Jammu, was talking to journalists on the sidelines of a function...
Tibetan exiles hold anti-China protest in India
[Wednesday,16 November 2011, AP] Hundreds of Tibetans have marched in India's capital to protest Chinese rule over their homeland. One demonstrator cut his finger and wrote "Free Tibet" on a banner with his blood. One poster read, "People of the world support us." Konchok Yangphel, a protest leader, called on China to deal justly with the Tibetans...
Dalai Lama to visit Kashmir excavation site
[Tuesday,15 November 2011, IANS] The excavation of a site in Jammu and Kashmir that is believed to be linked with an ancient Buddhist monastery has attracted the attention of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. His private office based in this Himachal Pradesh town on Monday said he will visit Ambran, located along the banks of Chenab river in Akhnoor...
Resolution of boundary dispute with India will take time: China
[Tuesday,15 November 2011, PTI] Ahead of the crucial Sino-Indian Special Representative talks on boundary dispute, China today said a fair solution cannot be achieved "over night" and will "take time". Pending the resolution, both countries in the meantime should ensure peace at the borders, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Spokesman Liu Weimintold a media briefing here today while answering a question on Special Representatives talks...
Australian MP Urges China to Respect Religious Freedom in Tibet
[Monday,14 November 2011, TibetNet] 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 Kirti Monastery...
Forego Losar celebrations, TYC appeals
[Monday,14 November 2011, Phayul] Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest pro-independence group in exile, has urged Tibetans not to celebrate the up coming Tibetan new year as a mark of honour and to pay tribute to the sacrifices being made by Tibetans inside Tibet. Referring to the unending wave of self-immolations by Tibetans in eastern Tibet...
Circular from Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kasur Lodi G. Gyari
[Monday,14 November 2011, TibetNet] As you are aware, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in his far-sighted wisdom, has undertaken yet another step in empowering the Tibetan people by his devolution of his political authority to the elected Tibetan leadership. This process is now complete with the relevant amendment of the Charter of Tibetans in Exile in May 2011, coming into session of a newly empowered Tibetan Parliament in June 2011...
China 'to give Tibetan monks welfare benefits'
[Monday,14 November 2011, BBC] China plans to give Tibetan monks welfare benefits in an apparent attempt to improve "stability", according to Chinese news reports. Monks can expect pensions, medical insurance and living allowances. The announcement came at a gathering of the Tibetan branch of the Chinese Communist Party...
Clinton presses China on Tibet, blind lawyer
[Friday,11 November 2011, AFP] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced alarm over Beijing's treatment of Tibetans and a blind rights activist as tensions between the superpowers threatened to intrude on Pacific Rim talks. In Honolulu for an Asia-Pacific summit, Clinton said Thursday that the United States welcomed a "thriving China" but wanted to ensure that the fast-growing region develops standards on openness and basic freedoms...
Tibet protester sets himself alight in Nepal
[Thursday,10 November 2011, AFP] A Tibetan exile chanting anti-China slogans briefly set himself on fire in Nepal on Thursday before fellow protesters put out the flames, police said. Since March there has been a series of self-immolations by Buddhist monks and nuns in southwest China, but police in Kathmandu said Thursday's staged protest was not a suicide bid...
Karmapa appeals to China to review policies towards Tibetans
[Thursday,10 November 2011, HT] Expressing concern over the inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAS) the 17th Karmapa, Ogeyn Trinley Dorje on Wednesday appealed Chinese leaders to enter into meaningful dialogues to resolve Tibet issue instead of using brute force to achieve the silence of Tibetans...
Two Kirti Monastery Monks Arrested Again In Eastern Tibet
[Wednesday,09 November 2011, TibetNet] Two young monks of Kirti Monastery in Tibet were arbitrarily arrested by the Chinese security police on 4 November.Yonten (19) and Lopey (21) were arrested from within the monastery premises. Their whereabouts and the reason for their arrest are still unknown. As per information received, more than 200 Chinese...
Dalai Lama makes low-key visit to Mongolia
[Tuesday,08 November 2011, AP] The Dalai Lama began a series of lectures to Buddhists in Mongolia on Tuesday in a low-key visit which nonetheless drew a protest from neighboring China. The Tibetan spiritual leader spoke at a Chinese-built sports stadium on the outskirts of Ulan Bator that underscored the economic sway that Beijing exercises over landlocked and largely poor Mongolia...
China says protests Dalai Lama visit to Mongolia
[Tuesday,08 November 2011, AP] China has protested Mongolia's decision to allow a visit by the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, the Chinese government said Tuesday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the protest was in keeping with China's consistent opposition to any country that gives a platform to the Dalai Lama. Beijing says the Dalai Lama is focused on splitting Tibet from China, a charge the Peace Prize laureate denies...
China objects to Free Tibet campaign in Nepal
[Tuesday,08 November 2011, TNN] A senior leader of China's ruling Communist party on Monday lodged a formal objection with Nepal's government about public demonstrations by Free Tibet campaigners inKathmandu valley last week as part of a global protest by Tibetans against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.Liu Qi, a senior politburo member of the party, and his visiting delegation met Nepal's Prime Minister, Dr Baburam Bhattarai...
Dalai Lama blames Tibetan burnings on "cultural genocide"
[Monday,07 November 2011, Reuters]The desperate conditions Tibetans face under Beijing's rigid controls in what amounted to "cultural genocide" are behind the spate of self-immolations in southwest China, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Monday. At least 11 Tibetans have set themselves ablaze this year in a heavily Tibetan part of China's Sichuan province that has become...
Group: Tibetan nun's death draws 10K to monastery
[Sunday,06 November 2011, AP] A Tibetan rights group said Sunday that around 10,000 Tibetans were reportedly gathered around a monastery in western China where a nun set herself on fire last week in apparent protest against Chinese rule. The 35-year-old Buddhist nun died Thursday in predominantly Tibetan Ganzi prefecture in Sichuan province. She was the 11th Tibetan monk, nun or former monk to self-immolate in western China in recent months....
Transform tragedy into positive source to rebuild, His Holiness tells Japan tsunami victims
[Saturday,05 November 2011, TibetNet] Surrounded by a trail of wreckage including a burned school building and vast expanse of flattened land where once life flourished before a devastating earthquake and tsunami took its toll, hundreds of Japanese with hope visible in their eyes eagerly waited on this cold and gray morning for a friend who promised to share their sadness...
Desperate situation causing self-immolations, China must review Tibet policy, says His Holiness
[Friday,04 November 2011, TibetNet] His Holiness the Dalai Lama today called on the Chinese leadership to review its 60 years of Tibet policy, saying using force is counterproductive and will not bring peace and stability. His Holiness said this in response to media queries on the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibet during a press conference in Sendai in Japan...
Tibetan exile sets self on fire in Indian capital
[Friday,04 November 2011, AP] Police overpowered a young Tibetan exile who set himself on fire outside the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital Friday in solidarity with Tibetans who self-immolated in China recently.Police grabbed 25-year-old Sherab TseDor and put out the fire engulfing his trousers. He shouted "Free Tibet, Stop Killing in Tibet," as officers took him in a jeep to a hospital...
‘China has an important role in building a healthy world,’ says the Dalai Lama
[Thursday,03 November 2011, Phayul] On a day when the topics of discussion at the Koyasan University auditorium ranged from the genetic information of cells to the complex Buddhist ideas of Dharmakaya, His Holiness the Dalai Lama methodically shared his ideas in drawing closer the two poles of human intellectual excellence...
Yet Another Tibetan Self-Immolates In Tibet
[Thursday,03 November 2011, TibetNet] Yet another Tibetan nun self-immolated in Kham Tawu, eastern Tibet at around 12 noon today. She is the 11 th Tibetan to set herself on fire in a wave of self-immolation protests that has taken place this year since march.Palden Choetso also known as Choesang, 35, from Jangchup Choeling nunnery near by Nyitso monastery in Kham, set herself on fire while chanting “ Long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama”,...
Self immolation bid foiled; 18 Tibetans arrested
[Thursday,03 November 2011, HT] Nepal Police arrested 18 Tibetan refugees on Wednesday and foiled an alleged self-immolation bid in support of Buddhist monks who have immolated themselves in their homeland.Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested the Free Tibet activists at Lalitpur on the outskirts of Kathmandu and recovered a jerry can filled with kerosene from their possession...
US urged to press China over Tibet self-immolation
[Thursday,03 November 2011,AP] The head of the Tibetan government-in-exile urged the U.S. government on Wednesday to press China for access to a region where 10 young Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. Lobsang Sangay said the self-immolations by protesters shouting Tibetan freedom slogans and their support for exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama...
Chinese Rule of Tibet Protested Ahead of G20
[Wednesday,02 November 2011,VoA] About 50 Tibetan students demonstrated Wednesday outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, demanding that the self-immolation of 10 Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns over the past month be addressed at Thursday's G-20 summit in Cannes...
China Funds U.S. Schools, Doesn’t Want Tibet Discussed
[Wednesday,02 November 2011,Bloomberg] When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet ...
UN experts demand halt to China repression of monks
[Wednesday,02 November 2011,Reuters] U.N. human rights investigators called on China on Tuesday to halt repression of Tibetan Buddhist monks and voiced concern that many had been arrested or had disappeared during a recent crackdown on religious freedom. Security forces, some bearing automatic rifles, have been reported as deploying in and around Kirti monastery...
Traces of Tibetan Plight Go Global
[Wednesday,02 November 2011, VoA] Pro-Tibet activists are holding a Global Day of Action Wednesday, but when the demonstrations are over, they're hoping another, quieter protest will continue to gain momentum online.
Chalk Tibet began in mid-October to draw international attention to the increasingly extreme calls for greater political and religious freedom in Tibet...
More than 100 Tibetan protesters detained in Nepal
[Tuesday,01 November 2011, AP] Nepalese police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles on Tuesday who had gathered to pray for nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule. About 400 Tibetans, including 150 monks, held a prayer meeting on the outskirts of Katmandu in honor of the monks, former monks and a nun who have immolated themselves since March in a restive Tibetan area of western China...
Chinese Intellectuals Launch Tibet Solidarity Signature Campaigns
[Tuesday,01 November 2011, TibetNet] Chinese intellectuals and independent writers have joined a signature campaign to express their concern over the deteriorating situation in Tibet, particularly in Ngaba, and also to show solidarity with the Tibetan people inside Tibet. More than 200 Chinese intellectuals and independent writers from outside China as well as some from inside China took part in the signature campaign initiated by Havard scholar Yang Jianli...
Pro-Tibetan protester, Chinese clash in Austria
[Monday,31 October 2011, AFP] A pro-Tibetan protester was jostled by pro-China demonstrators who tried to snatch her Tibetan flag Monday during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Austria, witnesses said. Two policemen came to the aid of the woman from the "SOS Tibet" group as President Hu emerged from his hotel to go to the Imperial Palace to meet Austrian President Heinz Fischer...
Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay Meets Senator Dianne Feinstein at Washington DC
[Monday,31 October 2011, Tibet.net] Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay arrived in Washington, DC this afternoon on a four-day visit to the US Capital. He was received at the airport by Bhuchung Tsering and Todd Stein of ICT and Kalden Lodoe, President of Capital Area Tibetan Association...
China invokes Waco siege in denouncing Dalai Lama
[Monday,31 October 2011, Reuters] Chinese state media denounced the Dalai Lama on Monday for his views on reincarnation, saying that the exiled Buddhist monk was trying to revise history, compounding his crimes as a separatist. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Tibetan spiritual leader in September said he or other Tibetan leaders should be the ones to decide...
Blending mental development with material
[Monday,31 October 2011, Dalailama.com] On the second day of his autumn tour in Japan, His Holiness walked out into a radiant Osaka morning, for the three-hour drive around ever more narrow mountain roads, up to the monk-filled mountain of Koyasan, set up by Kobo Daishi in the 9th century as the center of Shingon Buddhism...
Monks Flee Monastery
[Monday,31 October 2011, RFA] Chinese authorities clamp down on a renowned Tibetan monastery following a bomb blast. Chinese authorities have banned religious activities and harassed monks at an ancient monastery in Tibet's Chamdo prefecture following a bomb explosion at a government building there last week, sources said Sunday...
Dalai Lama: China policy caused monk immolations
[Saturday,29 October 2011, AP] Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, pointed to what he called China's "ruthless policy" as prompting the recent deaths of Tibetan monks who set themselves on fire in protest. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate called on Beijing to change its approach to ruling over the Himalayan region...
Make the world a better place, urges Dalai Lama
[Saturday,29 October 2011, The Pioneer] Tibetan spiritual leader Dali Lama on Friday described the new generation as the generation of the 21st century and his own generation as belonging to the 20th century “You are the generation of the 21st century,” he said while addressing students of the Doon School here on the occasion of the school...
European Parliament Adopts Emergency Resolution On Tibet
[Friday,28 October 2011, TibetNet] In light of the recent and devastating wave of self immolation protests in Tibet, Members of the European Parliament have discussed and adopted an emergency resolution on Tibet, especially with regard to the self immolation of monks and nuns in Tibet and the desperate situation of ethnic minorities in China...
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube help push Tibetan struggle
[Thursday,27 October 2011, Indian Express] The protest marches, the hungerstrikes and the waving of Tibetan flags before Chinese leaders are not quite passé, but technology Tibetan protesters in India have found more effective means to express themselves. The Central Tibetan Administration has opened accounts on Facebook and Twitter...
In India, Tibetans Set Foot on a Smuggled Piece of Home
[Wednesday,26 October 2011, WSJ] Many Tibetans living in exile have long harbored the desire to set foot on Tibetan soil. On Wednesday morning, Tibetans based in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala did just that. And they didn’t have to go very far: Tibetan soil was brought to their doorstep, courtesy of Tenzing Rigdol, a New York-based artist...
Yet Another Tibetan Monk Self-Immolates in Kandze
[Tuesday,25 October 2011, TCHRD] Sources to Tibet report that yet another monk self-immolated in Kandze County, Sichuan Province today (25 October 2011). At around 9.30 a.m Tibet local time, the fifth incident of self-immolation this month, monk Dawa Tsering, poured petrol on his body and set himself afire during the annual religious Cham dance ceremony in Kandze...
Our spirit stronger than Chinese soldiers: Tibet PM
[Monday,24 October 2011, CNN-IBN] Speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate, the new Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile Lobsang Sangay talks about the Tibetan struggle against China and discusses the international community's need to take a moral stand on Tibet, even if it means compromising economic interests with China...
Tibetan monk's suicide try seen in leaked video
[Monday,24 October 2011, AP] A teenage Tibetan monk lies partially clothed on the street, his lower legs smoking from setting himself on fire, in a video leaked out of China by exiles who say it was one of several self-immolations in protest of Chinese rule over the region. At least nine Tibetans in their late teens and 20s have set themselves on fire since March...
Tibetan plateau's glaciers melting rapidly
[Monday,24 October 2011, The Hindu] Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, the source of many rivers that sustain China and the Indian subcontinent, are melting “faster than ever,” according to a five-year study by Chinese researchers. The study found that a large area of glaciers had melted across the 2,400-square-kilometre region. The researchers had focused their study on glaciers...
Tibetan Administration eager to revive Nepal-Tibetan ties
[Sunday,23 October 2011, HT] Lobsang Sangay the Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration) has shown willingness to adopt diplomatic measures to ensure Nepal-Tibetan relation back on track. Off late the age old cordial relations between Nepal and the Tibetans residing has soured with the Government of Nepal ordering...
RSS expresses support for Tibetan cause
[Sunday,23 October 2011, ANI] Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar has said that Tibet was never a part of China and the Indian government should reconsider its decision and review its policies concerning Tibet.Kumar told the media here that after taking over Tibet, China had also grabbed the Himalayan region...
Tibetan diplomat disputes Ma’s peace deal claims
[Sunday,23 October 2011, Taipei Times] The de facto representative of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Taiwan yesterday took exception to claims made by President Ma Ying-jeou ( 馬英九 ) that Tibet had signed its 17-point peace agreement with China as a local government in 1951...
Danish Foreign minister criticises China on Tibet
[Thursday,20 October 2011, The Copenhagen Post Online] Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal criticised the Chinese record on human rights while also commending their efforts to pull hundreds of millions out of poverty at the first visit by a Chinese foreign minister to Denmark in 11 years...
Tibetan Buddhists live in fear after immolations
[Thursday,20 October 2011, AFP] A Tibetan lama in southwest China dodges questions about a wave of self-immolations in the region, saying his monks are forbidden even to speak about the protests against religious repression. Standing under the new roof of the Buddhist monastery's main hall, the maroon-clad monk nervously...
China says to get tough after Tibetan burnings
[Thursday,20 October 2011, Reuters] China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday the government of a restive, heavily Tibetan part of the country would take tough measures to ensure stability after a spate of self-immolations in protest at Chinese controls. At least nine people have set fire to themselves in Tibetan parts of Chinain recent months, mostly in Aba in the southwestern province of Sichuan...
US complains to China about Tibetan suicides
[Thursday,20 October 2011, AP] The United States is complaining to China about conditions that are reported to have led eight Tibetan Buddhist monks and one nun to burn themselves to death in China's Sichuan province. In response to a question, the State Department issued a statement of concern Wednesday about the self-immolations near the Ngaba Kirti monastery in Sichuan...
Visiting US Congressman expresses concern over Tibetan refugees in Nepal
[Thursday,20 October 2011, Phayul] Joining the Tibet Solidarity Movement in honour of the nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire this year following Chinese clampdown in the eastern Tibetan region of Ngaba, hundreds of Tibetans in Kathmandu on Wednesday offered prayers and observed hunger fast.At the Jawlakhel Handicraft Centre, around 90 Tibetan refugees began their fast at 8am in the morning after offering initial prayers...
Dalai Lama prays for Tibetans who self-immolated
[Wednesday,19 October 2011, AP] The Dalai Lama fasted and led prayers Wednesday to honor nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule, while Beijing criticized the Tibetan spiritual leader's support as inciting "terrorism in disguise." The 90-minute-long service at the Dalai Lama's Tsuglakhang Temple, in the northern Indian town where he lives in exile, focused on the monks,..
Tibetan town under siege as Tibetan monks protest
[Wednesday,19 October 2011, AFP] Police in full riot gear carrying automatic rifles and iron bars stand guard outside a huge Tibetan monastery in southwest China, the scene of a series of self-immolations by Buddhist monks. The residents of the Kirti monastery -- one of the most important in Tibetan Buddhism -- have been living under these siege...
China accuses Dalai Lama of encouraging suicide by fire
[Wednesday,19 October 2011, BBC News] China has again accused the Dalai Lama of encouraging people in ethnically Tibetan parts of China to commit suicide. It comes after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader offered prayers for eight monks and a nun who have set themselves on fire.It is not clear how many of them have died in what is said to have been protests ...
Thousands Join Tibetan Solidarity Movement To Highlight Critical Situation in Tibet
[Wednesday,19 October 2011, TibetNet] The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile under the banner of Tibet Solidarity Movement is organising a series of activities in New Delhi to express solidarity with plight of the Tibetan people inside Tibet and to highlight the grim situation prevailing there. A Tibetan Parliamentary delegation and Tibetans from different parts of India and Nepal have gathered in the Indian capital to carry out the activities...
S.African court challenge over Dalai Lama visa drama
[Tuesday,18 October 2011, AFP] Two South African opposition parties on Monday lodged a court challenge against the government's handling of a failed visa bid by the Dalai Lama to attend Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday celebrations. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the Congress of the People (Cope) filed papers in the Cape High Court...
China police fire on Tibetans, nun burns to death: group
[Tuesday,18 October 2011, Reuters] Chinese police shot and injured two Tibetan protesters in southwestern China last Sunday, and a Tibetan nun burned herself to death the following day, a group advocating self-determination for Tibet said, the latest in months of protests. The self-immolation and the protests signal that anger is swelling in Aba county, a mainly ethnic Tibetan part of Sichuan province that has been the center of defiance against Chinese control...
Nepal arrests Tibet leaders ahead of Delhi rallies
[Monday,17 October 2011, TNN] Nepal police arrested two senior leaders of the Tibetan community from capital city Kathmandu on Monday, ahead of protest rallies scheduled to kick off in New Delhi, signifying it was intensifying its already tight grip on the vulnerable diaspora. Thinley Lama, the current volunteer coordinator for welfare activities for Tibetan refugees in Nepal, was arrested along with his predecessor...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Top Scholars Discuss Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence
[Monday,17 October 2011, TibetNet] The XXIII Mind and Life conference which began today in Dharamsala has brought together His Holiness the Dalai Lama, contemplative scholars, activists and ecological scientists to discuss the interconnection between individual choices and environmental consequences...
Eighth Tibetan Self-Immolates, Tibetan Parliamentarians Meet Indian Leaders and Embassy Officials for Help
[Monday,17 October 2011, TibetNet] As the tragic tragic incidents of self-immolations by Tibetans continue, the Central Tibetan Administration has urged international community must press the government of People's Republic of China to restore freedom and resolve the issue of Tibet through dialogue for the mutual benefit of the Tibetan and Chinese people...
Lifetime achivement award for Tibetan opera artist
[Sunday,16 October 2011, IANS] Promising to remain committed to traditional Tibetan opera, 78-year-old artist Kundeling Thupten has won the lifetime achievement award at a function here, an event organiser said Sunday. "I feel honoured getting this award. It was my long-cherished dream for Tibetan opera to become popular among the youngsters in exile...
Another Self-Immolation; Serious Concerns about Increased Incidents
[Saturday,15 October 2011, TCHRD] We have confirmed reports from Tibet that at around 11:50 this morning (15 October 2011) one more unfortunate incident of self-immolation occurred in the Ngaba region. This is the eighth incidence of self-immolation in Tibet this year. Norbu Damdul, who is around 19 years of age, set himself on fire in the Ngaba town market...
Worldwide Tibetan protest on 19 October
[Saturday,15 October 2011, Tibet Sun] Tibetans and their supporters will stage a global protest by observing a day-long fast with prayers on 19 October to express their solidarity with all those who lost their lives in Tibet as well as other Tibetans who are incarcerated for their courage to speak up for the rights of the Tibetan people...
Massive rally in Dharamshala calls for international intervention in Ngaba crisis
[Friday,14 October 2011, Phayul] Tibetans and supporters in the exile seat of Dharamshala, northern India carried out a massive rally today demanding the Chinese government to immediately rescind its repressive policies in Ngaba, eastern Tibet. This year alone, six Tibetans in Ngaba have torched their bodies protesting Chinese government rule over Tibet. Three have succumbed to their injuries...
Dalai Lama may receive South African Gandhi award in India
[Thursday,13 October 2011, PTI] Ela Gandhi may travel to India to present the Dalai Lama with a peace award associated with Mahatma Gandhi, which was given to the Tibetan spiritual leader in absentia at a function in this South African city. Ela is a granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. The Dalai Lama had cancelled his trip to South Africa after delays in his visa being issued by South African authorities, allegedly because of pressure from the country''s largest trading partner China...
Tibetan monastery a 'virtual prison': exiled monk
[Thursday,13 October 2011, AFP] The exiled head of a Tibetan monastery in China has described it as a "virtual prison", saying monks are taking their lives in despair after two men set themselves alight over alleged repression. The attempted self-immolations happened on Friday near Kirti monastery in the southwestern province of Sichuan...
Resolve Tibet issue through dialogue: Tibet PM in exile
[Wednesday,12 October 2011, HT] Expressing deep concern over the deteriorating situation in Kalon Tripa- Prime Minister of Tibetan Government- in- exile, Lobsang Sangay on Wednesday said he would urge the international community to put pressure on People’s Republic of China (PRC) to restore freedom and resolve the Tibetan issue through dialogue...
China attacks 'Dalai clique' over self-immolations
[Tuesday,11 October 2011, AP] China on Tuesday accused overseas followers of the Dalai Lama of inciting a string of self-immolations among Tibetans. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said members of the "Dalai clique" not only failed to condemn the incidents, but publicized them to inspire further such acts...
Khaying passes away in hospital, China says no condolences
[Tuesday,11 October 2011, Phayul] Khaying, a Tibetan in his late teens, who set himself on fire protesting Chinese rule over Tibet last week, succumbed to his injuries on October 8 at around 1 pm local time. In his last moments, Khayang told his attendants in the hospital that he felt gratified with his act of self immolation for the cause of Tibet and felt no regret whatsoever...
S.African diplomacy reeling from Dalai Lama debacle
[Tuesday,11 October 2011, Reuters] Africa's biggest economy has already shown that it casts a tiny foreign policy shadow and South Africa's most recent diplomatic debacle -- over a visa for the Dalai Lama--has likely further diminished its stature by showing how easily it can be bullied. Pretoria's decision to cave into China by denying the Dalai Lama a visa to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu's birthday...
23rd Task Force Meeting on Negotiations Held in Dharamsala
[Monday,10 October 2011, TibetNet] A one-day meeting of the Task Force on Negotiations (TFN) was held today at the Kashag Secretariat in Dharamsala. Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay presided over the meeting to review the dialogue process held the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the representatives of the government of People's Republic of China...
Indian police detain Tibetans outside China embassy
[Sunday,09 October 2011, AFP] Indian police detained 13 Tibetan students on Sunday at a protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi after two men reportedly set themselves on fire at a monastery in southwest China. About 20 young protesters from India's large Tibetan exile community climbed lamp posts and raised anti-Beijing banners before the police moved in and bundled them into vans...
Dalai Lama criticizes China in S.African address
[Sunday,09 October 2011, AP] The Dalai Lama on Saturday sharply criticized China, which is accused of blocking him from traveling to South Africa to celebrate Archbishop Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday. The Tibetan spiritual leader spoke with Tutu and answered questions via a video link, instead of attending an event honoring South Africa's anti-apartheid hero a day after his birthday...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama congratulates the three Nobel Peace Prize winners
[Sunday,09 October 2011, Dalailama.com] In letters sent to H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirlef, Ms. Leymah Gbowee and Ms. Tawakul Karman, His Holiness the Dalai Lama congratulated them for being awarded jointly the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011. His Holiness wrote that in this age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership...
2 Tibetans set selves on fire in latest protest
[Saturday,08 October 2011, AP] Two Tibetan men set themselves on fire in southwest China in the latest self-immolation protest against the Chinese government, state media and a rights group reported Saturday. The two former monks, 18-year-old Thongan and 20-year-old Tenzin, set themselves on fire in Aba county in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture Friday, according to the official Xinhua News Agency...
'Highly impressed by Tibetans in keeping their identity and struggle alive' say UK MPs
[Saturday,08 October 2011, TibetNet] Praising the exile Tibetans' commitment in keeping their identity and struggle alive, the visiting 5-member delegation of British parliamentarians have reasserted their strong support to ensure Tibetan people's rights to self-determination and genuine autonomy in Tibet...
Desmond Tutu marks 80th birthday
[Friday,07 October 2011, CNN] South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 80 on Friday, days after a spat with the government over a visa delay that forced the Dalai Lama to cancel a trip to the nation. A day before his birthday, Tutu danced with the Soweto Gospel Choir during a church celebration to mark his birthday...
Lobsang Sangay: Exiled Tibetans' new political leader
[Friday,07 October 2011, CNN] Lobsang Sangay has a hard act to follow. He is the first Prime Minister, or Kalon Tripa, of the Tibetan government-in-exile to be directly elected by Tibetan delegates overseas. The 43-year-old has taken over the day-to-day political responsibilities of the Dalai Lama and in doing so is the first person to succeed the political duties...
The Dalai Lama to meet Archbishop Tutu via Internet
[Friday,07 October 2011, Phayul] His Holiness the Dalai Lama will address the inaugural Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture on October 8 to wrap up the events to celebrate one of South Africa's best-loved personalities but from his exile home of Dharamshala, north India via the Internet...
5-member team from UK to meet Tibetan PM
[Thursday,06 October 2011, HT] A five-member delegation from UK, comprising members of British Parliament, have reached Dharamshala to observe the proceedings of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile. The visit aims at impressing upon the British government to encourage negotiations between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan administration in exile...
Dalai Lama Keeps Firm Grip on Reins of Succession
[Wednesday,05 October 2011, NY Times] When the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader-in-exile, suggested at the end of September that for the first time in 600 years his successor might be an emanation and not a reincarnation, he may have wrong-footed the Chinese government that runs Tibet...
China inching closer in Arunachal
[Wednesday,05 October 2011, HT] That China has intensified focus on Arunachal Pradesh - or so-called south Tibet - is becoming increasingly clear, with the People's Liberation Army crossing the perceived Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the eastern sector more frequently than ever...
Tutu blasts ANC over Dalai Lama visa
[Wednesday,05 October 2011, HT] Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid hero often described as South Africa's conscience, slammed the ANC-led government Tuesday as "disgraceful" and said it is worse than the country's former oppressive white regime for not issuing a visa to the Dalai Lama...
Dalai Lama calls off South Africa visit
[Tuesday,04 October 2011, AP] The Dalai Lama has called off a visit to South Africa because he does not expect to get a visa, the Tibetan spiritual and political leader's office said Tuesday. In a statement from New Delhi, the Dalai Lama's office said he had planned to leave his Indian exile home Thursday, but after failing to receive a visa this week he was "now convinced that for whatever reason or reasons...
China hit by new Tibet monk self-immolation
[Tuesday,04 October 2011, AFP] A young Tibetan monk set himself on fire in southwest China, rights groups said Tuesday, the fifth reported case this year in what activists and experts say is a "rare" and "worrying" trend. The 17-year-old from Sichuan province's Kirti monastery, the scene of repeated protests, shouted slogans against the Chinese government as he tried to self-immolate...
Dalai Lama to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace prize
[Monday,03 October 2011, PTI] Despite stormy weather conditions in Taipei yesterday, 49 people —Tibetans and Taiwanese alike — staged a bicycle rally in the city to commemorate Tibetan monks who set themselves alight to protest China’s rule of Tibet. “Tibet belongs to Tibetans!” “China, get out of Tibet!” were among the slogans shouted by the 49 cyclists, who attracted the attention of passers-by and drivers...
Protesters cycle in storm for Tibet
[Sunday,02 October 2011, Taipei Times] Despite stormy weather conditions in Taipei yesterday, 49 people —Tibetans and Taiwanese alike — staged a bicycle rally in the city to commemorate Tibetan monks who set themselves alight to protest China’s rule of Tibet. “Tibet belongs to Tibetans!” “China, get out of Tibet!” were among the slogans shouted by the 49 cyclists, who attracted the attention of passers-by and drivers...
Tibetan Flag Removal Triggers Protests
[Sunday,02 October 2011, RFA] Protests flared in a Tibetan area in China's southwestern Sichuan province at the weekend after a photo of the Dalai Lama and a huge Tibetan flag were removed from a building and thrown in the street, eyewitnesses said. The dozens of protesters in the Serthar (Seda in Chinese) county city in the Ganzi Tibet Autonomous Prefecture also called for the return of the Dalai Lama from exile and demanded freedom for Tibet...
China reserves Dalai's birth
[Sunday,02 October 2011, TNN] On October 25, 1950, after the Chinese platoons stormed into Tibet and Radio Peking announced that the PLA was on the plateau "to free it from imperialist oppression", the India government lodged a protest. It was met with a stern warning. "No foreign interference will be tolerated," thundered the Chinese radio.Meanwhile in Lhasa, the kashag (cabinet) decided to consult the medium of Gadong Oracle at an official trance...
Chinese Buddhists from Taiwan And Mainland Attend His Holiness's Teaching
[Saturday,01 October 2011, TibetNet] More than 950 Chinese from Taiwan and mainland China are attending His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teaching on Nagarjuna's “In Praise of Dhammadhattu” at the Tsuklagkhang which began today. In his address to the public before starting the teaching, His Holiness the Dalai lama expressed his greetings to the devotees who have come from all across the world...
September '2011 (News Archive)
Tutu disappointed by Dalai Lama visa reaction
[Friday,30 September 2011, AFP] Pressure mounted Friday on South Africa to grant Tibet's spiritual leader an entry visa as a disappointed Desmond Tutu said he expects his 80th birthday gift will be "no Dalai Lama". The retired archbishop had invited his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate and close friend to give an inaugural peace lecture on October 8, as part of events to celebrate his birthday...
China, S. Africa ink $2.5 billion in deals in Dalai Lama's shadow
[Friday,30 September 2011, Reuters] China has agreed to $2.5 billion in investment projects with South Africa, the African nation's deputy president said on Thursday, on a three-day trip to China during which he brushed off controversy over a potential visit by the Dalai Lama.Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said the agreement was made between the Development Bank of South Africa and China Development Bank...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama expresses concern for the devastation caused by floods in Orissa
[Thursday,29 September 2011, AFP] “I am saddened to know that some of the worst floods ever seen in Orissa have resulted in the loss of many lives and a great deal of property, wreaking havoc on millions of people in your state.As a token of my sympathy and concern for this disaster, I am making a donation of Rs. 10 lakhs (Ten lakh rupees) from The Dalai Lama Trust to support the relief work...
Tutu, Dalai Lama slam S.African handling of visa request
[Thursday,29 September 2011, AFP] Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama berated the South African government Wednesday for its handling of the Tibetan spiritual leader's request for a visa to attend Tutu's 80th birthday party. The pair say Pretoria has yet to respond to the visa request, which has put South Africa in an awkward position with key trade partner China...
MP Gyalrong Dawa Tsering dies
[Wednesday,28 September 2011, Tibet Sun] Three-time member of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, Gyalrong Dawa Tsering, representing Amdo province, died from a heart attack. He was 59. He is survived by his wife and children. He suffered the heart attack a few days ago and was brought to a hospital in Chandigarh where he died...
US urges China to respect Tibetans' rights
[Wednesday,28 September 2011, AFP]The United States urged China to respect the rights of Tibetans and address their grievances after two monks set themselves on fire, triggering a security clampdown. The State Department also urged Beijing to allow journalists and diplomats to observe the situation in Sichuan province's Aba county, which has seen a string of protests and self-immolations by monks...
Tibetans face up to China's economic juggernaut
[Wednesday,28 September 2011, ABC] In the wild and isolated Diqing region of China's Yunnan province, the lives of ethnic Tibetan mountain farmers are pretty much the same as they have been for centuries. But now the region is coming face-to-face with China's economic juggernaut. Tibet is normally out of bounds for foreign correspondents in China - if reporters are allowed in...
China seals off restive Tibetan monastery
[Tuesday,27 September 2011, AFP] Police have cut Internet services and blocked roads near a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwest China where two monks set themselves alight in a call for religious freedom, according to witnesses. Authorities in Sichuan province's Aba county also ordered groups of more than six people together to break up in apparent attempts to prevent protests...
South Africa may block Dalai Lama visit to Tutu
[Tuesday,27 September 2011, AP] South African officials may block the Dalai Lama from celebrating the 80th birthday of his friend and fellow Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, amid fears that Chinese pressure is trumping the country's much-vaunted policies on freedom of speech and human rights.South African newspapers are already...
Successor chosen by Dalai Lama 'illegal': China
[Tuesday,27 September 2011, AFP] China said Monday any successor chosen by the Dalai Lama would be “illegal” after the Tibetan spiritual leader announced that he, and not Beijing, would decide whether he should be reincarnated. The Dalai Lama, who is 76, said on Saturday he would decide when he was “about 90” whether he should be reincarnated...
Tibetan Monk Dies in Self-Immolation, Another in Critical Condition
[Monday,26 September 2011,TPI] Another monk from Kirti Monastery has reportedly died and one more remains in a critical condition after setting themselves on fire in Ngaba county, Amdho province, eastern Tibet, marking at least the third self-immolation in protest against Chinese rule in Tibet and the harsh treatment of the Tibetan people...
Dalai Lama says China to have no say on successor
[Sunday,25 September 2011, AFP] Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday said he will decide when he is "about 90" whether he should be reincarnated and added firmly that China should have no say in the matter. The Dalai Lama made the statement in a 4,200-word document issued...
SA rejects Dalai Lama's visa application as 'incomplete'
[Saturday,24 September 2011, TNN] The Dalai Lama, who was refused visa to South Africa for a peace conference two years back, has once again been refused the same on grounds of ''incomplete application'' by the South African foreign office, sources here said. The South African government, which has come under criticism lately for not responding to the Tibetan leader's visa application after March, 2009, has allegedly close ties with China...
Nepal Hands Over 23 Detained Tibetan Refugees to UNHCR
[Friday,23 September 2011, VoA] Twenty three Tibetan refugees detained from the period of September 11-13 in Nepal for "illegally crossing" into the country have been released Thursday and turned over to the care of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.Nepal police arrested 20 Tibetans near a remote western Himalayan village on September 11 for crossing into Nepal from China...
Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leaders Meet For 11th Biannual Conference
[Thursday,22 September 2011, Tibet.net] A three-day 11th biannual conference of religious leaders and representatives of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon religion has begun this morning in Dharamsala.In his opening remarks, Kalon for Religion and Culture, Mr Pema Chhinjor, the Tibetan religious leaders through the previous conferences have made remarkable...
Chinese interference delays transit of 23 Tibetan refugees detained in Kathmandu as Nepalese PM meets world leaders in New York
[Wednesday,21 September 2011, ICT] Human rights monitors and foreign diplomats in Nepal who monitor the situation for Tibetan refugees transiting from Tibet through Nepal are concerned for the safety of 23 Tibetan refugees in custody in Kathmandu, Nepal. The group of Tibetans has not been turned over by Nepalese authorities to the UNHCR, as per established protocols, and the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama concerned about Sikkim earthquake
[Tuesday,20 September 2011, Dalailama.com] In a letter offering his condolences to the Chief Minister of Sikkim, His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his concern for the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in the state. “I was saddened to learn about the loss of life and damage to property that the recent earthquake has caused across isolated Himalayan regions, particularly in Sikkim...
Tibetan PM blames China for lack in progress of dialogue
[Tuesday,20 September 2011, HT] Even as the Chinese communist regime refuses to soften its stance on the half a century old Tibetan issue, the newly elected Prime Minister, Dr Lobsang Sangay said concerted efforts are on to resume talks with China which came to a stand still in last January, after nine rounds of talks...
Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile and CTA Saddened by Quake Tragedy in Sikkim
[Monday,19 September 2011, Tibet.net] The Tibetan Parliament in Exile today passed a resolution of condolence which the members expressed sadness over the loss lives in the earthquake in Sikkim and neighbouring regions and offered prayers of the speedy recuperation of all those injured...
Himilayan earthquake kills 53
[Monday,19 September 2011, AFP] Rescue teams battled landslides and torrential monsoon rains on Monday after a powerful earthquake rocked a vast and remote Himalayan region, killing at least 53 people in India, Nepal and Tibet. The epicentre of Sunday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake was in an isolated area of the border between India's Sikkim state and Nepal...
Sangay keeps Education, Gyari gets Home
[Monday,19 September 2011, Phayul] Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay announced the ministerial portfolios of his newly formed Kashag (cabinet) at a press conference today. All seven members of the 14th Kashag attended the formal press meet held at the Kashag Secretariat in Dharamshala...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama concludes his visit to Latin America
[Monday,19 September 2011, Dalailama.com] On the final day of his ten-day visit to Latin America, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a public talk on ‘Harmony through Universal Responsibility’ to 6,500 people at West Pavillion of the Parque das Convencoes do Anhembi in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This event was co-hosted by the office of the Mayor of Sao Paulo City...
China state religion groups slam US freedom report
[Sunday,18 September 2011, AFP] Beijing-backed religious groups hit out at the US after it reaffirmed China’s status as a country “of particular concern” on religious freedom, accusing Washington of trying to harm the nation’s image. The US State Department this week released its International Religious Freedom report for the second half of 2010...
Troubled RCs to be renewed by March 2012
[Sunday,18 September 2011, Payul] Phayul has learned that the problem surrounding the renewal Registration Certificates (legal permit to stay in India) of around 300 Tibetans could be resolved in the coming months. Speaking to Phayul, representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, Tenpa Tsering, who has been in constant touch with the Indian Home Ministry said that the Indian Government has responded positively to the issue. ..
His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in Brazil and addresses business and industrial leaders
[Friday,16 September 2011, Dalailama.com] Living up to his campaign promise of bringing in a mix of old and new faces in his cabinet, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today won unanimous nod from the Tibetan parliament for his six Kalon candidates. Under Article 21 of the Tibetan Charter in exile, Dr Sangay proposed six candidates against the seven he is provided for constitutionally...
Parliament gives unanimous nod to six Kalons
[Friday,16 September 2011, Phayul] Living up to his campaign promise of bringing in a mix of old and new faces in his cabinet, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today won unanimous nod from the Tibetan parliament for his six Kalon candidates. Under Article 21 of the Tibetan Charter in exile, Dr Sangay proposed six candidates against the seven he is provided for constitutionally...
China to pump $47 bln into Tibet to 2015
[Thursday,15 September 2011, Reuters] The Chinese government will pump 300 billion yuan ($47 billion) into restive Tibet over the next five years, with 90.5 billion yuan to financeroads, railways, hydropower stations and other infrastructure, state media said on Wednesday. The 226 projects the money will support are "aimed at achieving rapid development in Tibet"...
China pouts over Dalai Lama's Latin America tour
[Thursday,15 September 2011, GlobalPost] As the Dalai Lama makes his way across Latin America, China does its best to impede him. China isn’t pleased that Tibet’s spiritual leader is making the rounds in Latin America. After the Dalai Lama met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last week, China said the meeting damaged relations between the countries...
Orientation course for new Tibetan MPs in Dharamsala
[Thursday,15 September 2011, TNN] The New Delhi-based Tibetan parliamentary and policy research centre (TPPRC) has organized a five-day orientation course on Tuesday for the newly-elected members of the 15th Tibetan parliament in exile here from September 10 to 15. ..
His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses two packed audiences of 6,500 each in Buenos Aires
[Thursday,15 September 2011, Dalailama.com] This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave an interview with Ms. Susana Giménez, whose program is considered one of the best in the history of television in Argentina. During the interview, His Holiness dealt with various questions ranging from ethics and morality, social problems including wide spread corruption, role of media in mitigating social problems, and retirement of the Dalai Lama...
US Government Reports Severe Repression of Religious Freedom in Tibet
[Thursday,15 September 2011, TibetNet] The US State Department in its International Religious Freedom Report, which was published Tuesday (13 September), said the Chinese government's repression of religious freedom remained severe in Tibet during the reporting period of July-December 2010...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in Buenos Aires
[Wednesday,14 September 2011, Dalailama.com] His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived yesterday evening in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, after flying for nine hours from Mexico City. He was received at the airport by the protocol officers of the Ministry of External Affairs of Argentina as well as by Prof. Horacio E. Araujo (Lama Sangye Dorye), Lama Rinchen...
South Africa 'considering' Dalai Lama visa
[Wednesday,14 September 2011, AFP] South Africa is considering a visa request from the Dalai Lama, the government said Tuesday, two years after refusing entry to the Tibetan exiled spiritual leader over fears of angering China. "Our mission in New Delhi has received a visa application from his holiness the Dalai Lama and, like all other high profile or ordinary visa applications, this application is under process," said Foreign Minister...
Nepal arrests 20 Tibetan teens crossing from China
[Monday,12 September 2011, AFP] Nepal has detained 20 Tibetan teenagers for entering the country illegally from China, police said Monday, weeks after the government assured Beijing that it would crack down on anti-China activity.The 15 boys and five girls, aged 16 to 18, were held at a remote western Himalayan village after crossing into Nepal on foot from China...
Dalai Lama urges harmony ahead of 9/11 anniversary
[Sunday,11 September 2011, CP] The Dalai Lama says all religions, including his own, have faithful who carry the seeds of destructive emotions within them. The Buddhist spiritual leader's message comes just days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...
At Himachal varsity’s peace meet,Tibetan ‘PM’ harps on non-violence
[Sunday,11 September 2011, Indian Express] The Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Sunday said his countrymen were confident that their non-violent way of asserting their rights was the most powerful tool in their efforts to return to their home land...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama opens exhibition on Tibet and gives teaching on Mind Training
[Sunday,11 September 2011, Dalailama.com] Before departing the hotel for Museum of (War Crimes) Memories and Tolerance, His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with Senator Santiago Creel Miranda, who earlier served as Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox, and his family members. In October 2004, when His Holiness visited Mexico...
China slams Calderon's meeting with Dalai Lama
[Saturday,10 September 2011, AP] China said Saturday a meeting between Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the Dalai Lama damaged relations between the countries and interfered with China's internal affairs.Calderon met for about 45 minutes Friday with the Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
Mexican President meets Dalai Lama
[Saturday,10 September 2011, AFP] Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday held "private" talks with the Dalai Lama -- a move sure to irritate China, which says the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader is bent on independence. Calderon's office said in a statement that the pair had discussed "the importance of promoting ethical values in contemporary society." ..
Tutu hopes South Africa defies China over Dalai Lama
[Saturday,10 September 2011, AFP] Activist Desmond Tutu said South Africa’s government will “shoot themselves in the foot” if they deny a visa to the Dalai Lama to please key trade partner China, a news report said on Friday. Tutu invited the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to his 80th birthday celebrations next month but Pretoria has yet to announce...
Tibetans raise voice in Chennai
[Friday,09 September 2011, Deccan Chronicle] They may look like carefree, fashionable college students at first glance, but inside every Tibetan, there is a freedom fighter, longing to return to a free motherland. On Thursday morning, around 200 young Tibetan students boycotted their classes and went on a hunger strike protesting the human rights violations committed by the Chinese armed forces in Tibet...
Mundgod to host 17th GCM football tournament
[Friday,09 September 2011, Phayul] The 17th Gyalyum Chemo Memorial (GCM) Football Tournament will be held in Doeguling Tibetan Settlement, Mundgod in the south Indian state of Karnataka. "The tournament will be from September 25 to October 3 and 14 teams from across India including one team from Nepal are registered to participate in the GCM...
Dalai Lama calls for more freedoms for Chinese
[Thursday,08 September 2011, AP]Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday called on China to allow information to flow more freely and to create an independent judiciary.A quick transition in China from communism to democracy "would create many problems," he said during a visit to Montreal...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Arrives in Montreal for two-day visit
[Thursday,08 September 2011, Dalailama.com] His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Montreal this afternoon for a two-day visit to the town. At the airport, His Holiness was received by Kasur Lobsang Nyandak Zayul, Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama to the Americas, Prof. Arvind Sharma of McGill University...
Nepal refused to grant amnesty to 10 Tibetan refugees
[Thursday,08 September 2011, TNN] Nepal's elected government, headed by the democratic Nepali Congress party, refused to grant amnesty to 10 Tibetan refugees caught travelling without valid travel documents despite being urged to do so by the US and the UN refugee agency in 2002, according to the latest documents on Nepal released by Wikileaks...
Samphel of Kardze sentenced to three years in jail
[Wednesday,07 September 2011, Tibet Sun] A Chinese court in Kardze in eastern Tibet has sentenced an anti-government protester to three years in prison, according to Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. Samphel Dhondup, 23, was given the sentence on 20 August for taking part in a protest on 10 July denouncing the Chinese rule in Tibet...
India should lead the world in 21st century: Dalai Lama
[Tuesday,06 September 2011, Indian Express] India has "greater potential" and should lead the world in the 21st century through non-violent principles, the Dalai Lama today said and emphasised the role educations plays in shaping the future of a country. Addressing students of Indira Gandhi National Open University after being conferred with Honorary Doctorate for his outstanding contribution to world peace, Dalai Lama ...
Woeser receives international honour
[Tuesday,06 September 2011, Phayul] The fearless Tibetan writer and blogger Woeser has been awarded a Prince Claus Award for the year 2011 by the Netherlands-based Prince Claus Fund.Calling the 44-year old, a “courageous Tibetan writer,” the Prince Claus Fund in a release September 4 noted the “unique perspectives” that Woeser offers “on the complexities of Tibet today.”...
Dalai Lama inaugurates Tibetan center at IGNOU
[Monday,05 September 2011, IBNS] A new center for Tibetan Studies was inaugurated by The Dalai Lama at the campus of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here on Monday during the 24th convocation of the university. He was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) in recognition of his contributions to the world peace and development from the university...
Central Tibetan Administration Mourns Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche's Demise
[Monday,05 September 2011, TibetNet] The Central Tibetan Administration has mourned the demise of His Eminence Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche, head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, describing his passing away as a loss to the Tibetan Buddhism. He passed away at the age of 88 on 2 nd September 2011 at 8:30 am...
Exile administration far superior to China's rule in Tibet: Sangay
[Saturday,03 September 2011, TNN] "Today our democracy, while nascent, is a successful model of an exile community establishing a strong democratic base and governance system. This is in large part due to the generosity of the Indian government and people...
Tibetans-in-exile celebrate 51st democracy day
[Friday,02 September 2011, TNN] Tibetans living in exile celebrated 51st democratic day at Tsuglakhang temple at McLeodganj on Friday. The Dalai Lama, prime minister Lobsang Sangay, Tibetan administration members, Himachal chief minister and other ministers of the state were present on the occasion...
New Tibetan leader not qualified for talks: China
[Thursday,01 September 2011, Tibet Sun] China has reiterated its position that the newly-elected leader of the Central Tibetan Administration is not qualified to hold negotiations with the Chinese government, in a statement by a China Tibetologist quoted by Xinhua.Tibetologist Dr Dramdul, the deputy director-general of China Tibetology Research Centre, said in Tokyo on Wednesday that the newly-elected leader of the exile Tibetans, Dr Lobsang Sangay...
Former Kalon Tripa Juchen Thupten Namgyal passes away
[Thursday,01 September 2011, Phayul] Former Kalon Tripa and Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Juchen Thupten Namgyal passed away yesterday evening in Delhi, India. He was 82.Born in Meshong, Derge eastern Tibet, Juchen Thupten Namgyal joined the Tibetan resistance force and fought the invading People’s Liberation Army...
August '2011 (News Archive)
'Pay attention to inner values for success'
[Tuesday,30 August 2011, TNN] The spiritual leader of Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama commenced teachings of Shantideva's " A Bodhisattva way of life" on the demand of a group of devotees from south-east Asian countries, especially Singapore and Malaysia on Tuesday. He will teach at Tsuglakhang Temple in Mcleodganj for three days...
Two more Tibetan monks jailed over burning death
[Tuesday,30 August 2011, AFP] A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced two Tibetan monks to long prison terms for “intentional homicide” after a fellow member of their monastery burnt himself to death, the state Xinhua news agency reported.The court in Sichuan province in southwestern China condemned Tsering Tenzin and Tenchum, both of the Kirti monastery...
Monk gets 11 years in self-immolation case
[Monday,29 August 2011, Reuters] A court in southwest China sentenced a Tibetan monk to 11 years in jail for “intentional homicide” for hiding a fellow monk and preventing him from getting treatment after he set himself on fire, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.Overseas rights groups say that the monk, named Rigzin Phuntsok, immolated himself in March to protest against government controls on the restive region of Tibet...
New row over Dalai Lama South Africa visa
[Sunday,28 August 2011, Independent Online] Another row over a planned visit to South Africa by the Dalai Lama is brewing. Archbishop Desmond Tutu confirmed on Saturday that he had invited the Dalai Lama to attend his 80th birthday party in Cape Town on 7 October...
Indira Gandhi National Open University to Honour His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Doctorate
[Saturday,27 August 2011, TibetNet] The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will confer an honorary doctor of letters degree on His Holiness the Dalai Lama at its 24th convocation on 5 September, the university said. "His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be awarded the degree of doctor of letters (Honoris Causa)," a report in the university's website said...
Kalon Tripa Speaks on Future of Tibetan Democracy and Politics
[Friday,26 August 2011, TibetNet] Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today gave a key note address to the participants of the 5th conference on the importance of Tibetan cultural studies at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, near here.Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay's address to the participants stressed on the future of Tibetan democracy and politics in the exile community...
Land grabbing by Chinese migrants puts Tibetan lives in danger in quake-hit Kyegudo
[Friday,26 August 2011, TibetNet] Native Tibetans living in Kyegudo in eastern Tibet's Kham Province, who were devastated by a powerful earthquake in April last year, are losing their land to a large number Chinese migrants. Reports from the region say the mushrooming Chinese migrants across Kyegudo, including Jachukhog region...
China replaces Tibet's hard-line party boss
[Thursday,25 August 2011, AP] China on Thursday replaced Tibet's hard-line Communist Party boss under whom bloody rioting broke out in the Himalayan region three years ago. The official Xinhua News Agency said Zhang Qingli, the region's highest-ranking official, is being moved to another position which it did not identify. It said he will be replaced by Chen Quanguo...
Tibetan college students debate on Gadhen Phodrang’s legacy
[Thursday,25 August 2011, Phayul] The fifth Student’s Debate on Tibetan Cultural Studies began yesterday at the Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies, near the Tibetan exile seat of Dharamshala.The four-day debate organised by the Sarah Working Committee of the RTYC, Dharamshala...
Hundreds of Hessen citizens turn out to greet His Holiness the Dalai Lama
[Wednesday,24 August 2011, Dalailama.com] Hundreds of Hessen citizens turned out to greet His Holiness the Dalai Lama this afternoon on the second day of the visit. From the hotel to the State Parliament, hundreds of Germans lined up to greet and welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama as he walked to the State Parliament through the city centre...
China maps Brahmaputra, Indus for dams
[Wednesday,24 August 2011, PTI] Bracing to build a number of water projects in Tibet including a dam on Brhamaputra, Chinese scientists have completed a comprehensive satellite study of cross-border Tibetan rivers determining their exact sources besides measuring the length of their drainage basins...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses a packed audience at Mindfulness Congress
[Tuesday,23 August 2011, Dalailama.com] His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed a pack audience at the International Congress Mindfulness. Mindfulness is not a religious practice and we practice it everyday in different forms, he said. The address was webcast live on the Internet.In the last one or two decades more and more scientist, including medical scientist have been showing greater interest on mind or emotion...
Delhi ready to counter Beijing's border might
[Monday,22 August 2011, HT] With Beijing flexing its muscles by strengthening its military capacity in Tibet, New Delhi has given an in-principle nod to beef up defences along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control. The Indian counter-move includes raising a new army corps at Pannagarh in West Bengal...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama concludes two-day program in Finland
[Sunday,21 August 2011, Dalailama.com] His Holiness the Dalai Lama ended his two-day program in Finland this afternoon with a public talk to an audience of 7,000 people on the subject of “The Power of Compassion.” The capacity crowd at the Barona Arena in Espoo, near Helsinki, warmly received His Holiness’ address and the responses that His Holiness gave to the numerous questions that were put to him...
Dalai Lama 'optimistic' after 'century of violence'
[Sunday,21 August 2011, AFP] Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Saturday he was "optimistic" about the course of humanity after a "century of violence". "I'm optimistic humanity becomes more mature," the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate said while speaking at a conference on Tibetan culture in Espoo, in western Finland...
Dalai Lama visits Finland
[Friday,19 August 2011, Helsinki Times] His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama arrives in Finland this week for the fifth visit of his tenure, to give two public talks at Espoo’s Barona Arena on Saturday 20 August. The first is a Buddhist teaching on Eight Verses of Mind Training at 10 am, followed by a non-Buddhist talk entitled the “Power of Compassion” in the afternoon...
Tibetan Exile Leader Says Nepal Curbs Refugees at China’s Behest
[Friday,19 August 2011, Bloomberg] The Himalayan nation of Nepal is tightening restrictions against an estimated 20,000 Tibetan refugees because of pressure from China, the new prime minister of the Tibetan exile administration said. On Tibetan issues, “Nepal has become almost a satellite state of China,” ...
Dalai Lama awarded honorary doctorate in Estonia
[Thursday,18 August 2011, RIA Novosti] The Dalai Lama was on Thursday awarded an honorary doctorate in Oriental Studies from the University of Tartu in Estonia. The university's president, Alar Karis, awarded the Dalai Lama with the honorary degree at the Estonian Academy of Sciences...
Dalai Lama Delivers Message of Peace
[Thursday,18 August 2011, ERR News] This afternoon, August 17, the Dalai Lama met with the public on Tallinn's Freedom Square and delivered a speech, "A Call For Universal Responsibility," reminding the audience that peace begins within us. Like violence, which is man-made, peace also depends on man, and therefore every one of us can make the world a better place...
Tibetan monk who set himself on fire is cremated
[Thursday,18 August 2011, AP] A monk who set himself on fire in an ethnically Tibetan region of western China has been cremated. The Free Tibet campaign in London says 29-year-old Tsewang Norbu died Monday after dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire in Daofu county...
President of Estonia meets with Dalai Lama; Chinese warning
[Wednesday,17 August 2011, ERR News] President Toomas Hendrik Ilves held an unofficial meeting with the Dalai Lama today, August 17, during which Ilves both emphasized the importance of protecting Tibetan culture and expressed support for Estonia's continued one-China policy...
Tibetans Held Amid China Visit
[Wednesday,17 August 2011, RFA] Detentions reflect growing Chinese influence in Nepal. Nepalese police detained eight Tibetans in Kathmandu this week in a bid to block anti-China protests during the visit of a high-level delegation from Beijing...
Hundreds of people welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his third visit to Estonia
[Wednesday,17 August 2011, Dalailama.com] His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama arrived in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia from France this afternoon. His Holiness will stay in Estonia for three days until the afternoon of 18 August, and the hosts for this visit are the Estonian Institute of Buddhism and the Riigikogu Tibet Support Group (Estonian Parliamentary group for Tibet)...
Dharamsala Saddened by Fiery Death in Tibet: Urges China for Restraint
[Tuesday,16 August 2011, TibetNet] The Central Tibetan Administration is deeply saddened by the death of Tsewang Norbu who died because he had set himself on fire to draw the international community's attention to the worsening crisis in Tibet. This act of desperation is another indication of the deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet...
China riled by Dalai Lama's visit to Estonia
[Tuesday,16 August 2011, ERR News] Predictably angry words concerning the Dalai Lama's three-day visit to Estonia and his meetings with government officials were issued by the Chinese Embassy today, August 16, the day of the Tibetan spiritual leader's arrival. "By allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Estonia and arranging official meetings with him, Estonia will seriously violate the basic principles of international relations," ...
Police control Tibetan town after monk's suicide protest
[Tuesday,16 August 2011, DPA] Paramilitary police controlled a monastery town in south-western China's Sichuan province on Tuesday following the death of a Tibetan monk who set fire to himself to protest Chinese rule, sources said.'Daofu is under (police) control,' said a receptionist at a hotel in the town, which is known as Dawu in Tibetan...
Tawu monk dies in protest self-immolation
[Monday,15 August 2011, AFP] A Tibetan monk set himself on fire and died on Monday in southwest China, state media and a witness said, months after another self-immolation in the restive area sparked a crackdown by authorities. The 29-year-old monk set himself on fire in Tawu, Kham region of Tibet (Ch: Sichuan province’s Daofu county) and died of his injuries, the official Xinhua news agency reported...
His Holiness praises Kalon Tripa's new policy on education
[Monday,15 August 2011, Dalailama.com] Holiness the Dalai Lama said he has been impressed with Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay's views on education, praising his policy to generate 10,000 professionally trained Tibetans within the next decade. Speaking to representatives of French TV during lunch break on the second day of teaching in Toulouse...
Tibetans to decide future of institution of Dalai Lama
[Sunday,14 August 2011, AFP] Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama warned China Saturday it was up to his people to decide on his future role, days after a change at the head of the Tibetan government in exile. “As early as 1959 I made it clear, officially,” that it was up to the Tibetan people to decide whether or not the institution of the Dalai Lama should continue, he said...
Dalai Lama begins 3-day spiritual visit to France
[Saturday,13 August 2011, AP] The Dalai Lama began a three-day spiritual visit to France on Saturday, saying that rapprochement with Beijing was possible and that if all rights are genuinely implemented "then it's in our interest to remain within" China.The Dalai Lama, now 76, gave up his role as head of the Tibetan government-in-exile Aug. 8...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in Geneva, Switzerland
[Friday,12 August 2011, Dalailama.com] His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Geneva, Switzerland early this morning. The visit’s main program is to inaugurate and consecrate the newly constructed Tibetan Buddhist Centre - Sherdurb Choekorling at Mont Saléve, France tomorrow morning...
Foreigners barred in NW China ahead of Panchen Lama visit
[Friday,12 August 2011, AP] Chinese tourism officials said Friday that foreigners have been barred from a county in northwestern China, with activists saying security in the area has been stepped up ahead of an expected visit by a government-appointed Tibetan religious leader...
US urges China to restore writer's liberties
[Thursday,11 August 2011, AFP] The United States urged China on Thursday to restore a dissident writer's freedoms a day after he was allowed to leave a detention centre on condition he limit his movements and contacts.Blogger Ran Yunfei, 43,was sent home for six months of "residential surveillance"...
Dalai Lama favours separation of politics and religion
[Thursday,11 August 2011, PTI] With Harvard scholar Lobsang Sangay succeeding him as the political head of Tibetans, the Dalai Lama today said he always believed political and religious institutions must be separated from each other. The 76-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader said that he always said that religious and political institutions should function separately...
Tibetan Exiles Say Secular Politics Will Produce Livelier Democracy
[Wednesday,10 August 2011, VoA] Tibetan exiles say this week's inauguration of a secular political leader to take over administrative duties from the Dalai Lama will help produce a livelier democracy and advance the long term goal of returning to their homeland.Traditional cultural dancers performed Tuesday for newly inaugurated Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Leaves for Europe
[Tuesday,09 August 2011, TibetNet] His Holiness the Dalai Lama today left Dharamsala for visits to France, Estonia and Finland. His Holiness will be in Toulouse, France, where he will give teachings on Kamalashila's The Middling States of Meditation (gomrim barpa) on 13-14 August...
My long-cherished aspiration fulfilled, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama
[Tuesday,09 August 2011, TibetNet] Ahead of the swearing in of the new prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamshala, police on Friday arrested the new representative of the Dalai Lama in Nepal for holding a press conference though it had no political overtones...
New Tibetan leader sworn in as prime minister
[Monday,08 August 2011, AP] A Harvard-trained legal scholar was sworn in Monday as new head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, taking over from the Dalai Lama as the official leader of his people's fight for freedom. Lobsang Sangay immediately confronted a host of challenges...
Nepal arrests Dalai Lama's new envoy in Nepal
[Saturday,06 August 2011, TNN] Ahead of the swearing in of the new prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamshala, police on Friday arrested the new representative of the Dalai Lama in Nepal for holding a press conference though it had no political overtones...
Tibetan Mine Protesters Detained
[Saturday,06 August 2011, RFA] Chinese authorities have taken into custody two men identified as the “ringleaders” of Tibetan protests against mining in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), according to Tibetan sources. The detentions follow a wave of roundups of other protesters who have sought to block mine operations...
US Congressman Praises Democratic Achievements of Tibetans in Exile
[Friday,05 August 2011, TibetNet] Describing His Holiness the Dalai Lama's voluntary effort to give up power as remarkable, a top US lawmaker has said it is culmination of a decades-long process of nurturing the development of democratic institutions in the Tibetan exile community...
No threat from China dam on Brahmaputra: Manmohan Singh
[Thursday,04 August 2011, IANS] Allaying fears that the flow of northeastern Brahmaputra river would be affected by a dam being built in China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said it was only a "run-of-river dam". “What has been alleged is only a run-of-river dam,” the prime minister told the Rajya Sabha...
Didn't expect to be fully satisfied: Samdhong Rinpoche
[Thursday,04 August 2011, Tibet Sun] Samdhong Rinpoche, the out-going Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration (commonly known as Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile), said that he is not fully satisfied with what he was able to accomplish during his ten years in the position...
Beijing's Ethnic Policies 'Flawed'
[Wednesday,03 August 2011, RFA] As China warns of a harsh crackdown following ethnic violence in its troubled western region of Xinjiang, experts say the latest attacks in Kashgar city point to serious problems with government policies towards ethnic minorities...
Chief Supreme Justice Commissioner Launches Report on 6th Int'l Tibet Support Groups Conference
[Tuesday,02 August 2011, TibetNet] The report on the Sixth International Tibet Support Groups Conference held in India last year was released today at a press conference at the Department of Information and International Relations...
Consider Tibet as core issue in Sino-India talks:Lobsang Sangay
[Monday,01 August 2011, PTI] India should considerTibet as one of the core issues in its discussions with China,Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister-designate of Tibet's Government-in- Exile, has said. "Politically, it is a humble request on our part that India consider Tibet as one of the core issues between India and China," ..
July '2011 (News Archive) A Young Tibetan Lama Prepares for a Greater Role
[Friday,29 July 2011, NY Times] At the age of 7, he was deemed to be the 17th reincarnation of the Karmapa — one of the most revered figures in Tibetan Buddhism — and whisked from the yak-hair tent of his nomad family in the Himalayas to be groomed in a monastery for leadership...
Ambassador Gary Locke's Response to Questions on Tibet during his US Senate Confirmation
[Friday,29 July 2011, TibetNet] The US Senate confirmed former Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as Ambassador to China on 27 July 2011. Excerpts from response given by the Ambassador to questions posed to him by Senators in connection with the confirmation hearing follows...
Nepal rejects ambitious Chinese Buddhist venture
[Friday,29 July 2011, TNN] Less than a fortnight after a Chinese nongovernmental organisation announced its plan for what amounted to a virtual takeover of Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, Nepal's government on Thursday unceremoniously rejected it, saying it would not entertain any deal struck in a third country without the participation...
Tibetans Gather To Promote Values
[Thursday,28 July 2011, RFA] Defying orders from Chinese authorities, more than 5,000 Tibetan monks, nuns, and laypeople gathered last week at a monastery in southwestern Sichuan province for talks to promote Tibetan cultural values and national unity, a Tibetan source living in India said...
Dalai Lama achieves phenomenal following on Twitter
[Tuesday,26 July 2011, IANS] More than two million people across the globe religiously follow him on microblogging site Twitter, giving Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama an unprecedented reach...
Chinese envoy paints rosy picture of Tibet
[Monday,25 July 2011, HT] Newly appointed Chinese ambassador to Nepal Yang Houlan seems to be in a hurry to showcase a picture of Tibet that’s contrary to popular perception across the globe. In an op-ed article titled ‘Shining Tibet’ that appeared in Sunday’s Republica, a mainstream English daily published from Kathmandu...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Offers His Condolences to Those Affected by the Violence in Norway
[Saturday,23 July 2011, Dalailama.com] In a letter sent to the Prime Minister of Norway, H.E. Jens Stoltenberg on 23 July 2011, His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his sadness and shock on learning of the tragedy that has befallen Norway with a bomb blast in the centre of Oslo as well as the shooting incident...
Dalai Lama says his demonization by China 'childish'
[Saturday,23 July 2011, AFP] The Dalai Lama said that Chinese leaders show through their strident denunciations of him that they are "childish" and lack their full brains, but voiced hope that China will change in time.Tibet's exiled spiritual leader enjoys widespread global popularity...
Stapled visas better than no visas: Arunachal CM’s aide
[Saturday,23 July 2011, TNN] Disgruntlement over China's decision to issue stapled visas to Arunachal Pradesh residents took a new turn with former MP Kirren Rijuju suggesting that the visa regime be accepted, a stand supported by the state's Olympic association as well. ..
A Conversation with the Dalai Lama
[Friday,22 July 2011, Rolling Stone] The sun is shining on Tsuglakhang temple, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, and hundreds of Tibetans have gathered in the courtyard for a feast. As Buddhist monks ladle out white rice and stewed vegetables, horns blow and cymbals crash...
Dalai Lama is surprise guest on Aussie "MasterChef"
[Friday,22 July 2011, Reuters] What we do know is that the Dalai Lama appeared as a judge on Monday's edition of "MasterChef." Well, the Australian version, anyway. The show's producers stunned contestants with the announcement that they'd be cooking for the Tibetan spiritual leader. But they needn't have felt any pressure...
We are Proud of Fulfilling His Holiness' Wishes on Democracy, Says TPiE Speaker
[Friday,22 July 2011, TibetNet] The Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile today addressed Tibetan settlers at Doeguling settlement in Mundgod on the process of devolution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's administrative and political powers to the democratically leadership of the Central Tibetan Administration...
Monks Lobsang Khedup and Lobsang Gyatso Sentenced to 3 Years Imprisonment
[Thursday,21 July 2011, TCHRD] According to confirmed information received on 19 July 2011, monks Lobsang Khedup and Lobsang Gyatso of Kirti monastery, Ngaba County, were sentenced to three years imprisonment term each on 15 July 2011.Lobsang Khedup (around 36) was arrested on 4 May 2011 from Kirti Monastery...
China tells Tibet monks to 'break with separatists'
[Thursday,21 July 2011, AFP] The man widely expected to be China's next president on Wednesday urged monks in Tibet to "break with separatist forces" during a visit marking 60 years since China took control of the restive region.Speaking at Jokhang temple in the Tibetan capital Lhasa...
Dalai Lama gets a rousing welcome on his return
[Wednesday,20 July 2011, TNN] Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama returned to Dharamshala on Wednesday. He was accorded a warm welcome by Tibetans, local residents and foreigners at the airport. Returning from a 13-day visit of the United States...
China's heir apparent pledges tough line on Tibet
[Tuesday,19 July 2011, Reuters] Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping vowed on Tuesday to crack down on separatist forces led by the Dalai Lama, suggesting that China's heir apparent to the presidency will not ease Beijing's hardline stance toward the region...
His Holiness Highlights Role of Interfaith Leaders in promoting religious harmony
[Tuesday,19 July 2011, Dalailama.com] On his last day of this two-city current tour of the United States, on July 18, 2011 morning, His Holiness participated in a dialogue with interfaith leaders in a session entitled, Building Bridges: Religious Leaders In Conversation With The Dalai Lama...
His Holiness Highlights Need for Religious Harmony at Chicago Public Talk by Theosophical Society
[Monday,18 July 2011, Dalailama.com] On July 17th His Holiness the Dalai Lama left Washington, D.C. for Chicago in the morning. On his arrival in Chicago, he was received by the President of Theosophical Society of America, Mr. Tim Boyd, Mrs. Nina Schroeder, Executive Producer of the Visit Host Committee...
Obama meets with Dalai Lama; Chinese complain
[Sunday,17 July 2011, AP] President Barack Obama held a White House meeting Saturday with the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel Peace laureate, hours after China called on the U.S. to rescind an invitation that could sour relations with Beijing...
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