Prominent French museums face criticism for replacing ‘Tibet’ with ‘Xizang’ under Chinese influence
Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 8: Two prominent museums in France, the Musée du quai Branly and the Musée Guimet have come under scrutiny from a group of leading scholars, mostly sinologists and Tibetologists, for succumbing to Chinese demands to rewrite and distort the history and cultural identity of Tibet. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, […]
Monpa community offers long-life prayer to Dalai Lama
Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 8: The Monpa community from Arunachal Pradesh, led by Lama Ngawang Norbu, chairman of the Monyul Long Life Offering Organising Committee, gathered on Saturday at Thekchen Choeling Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala to offer a Long Life Prayer (Tenshug) to the revered Buddhist leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Joining them were Chief Minister […]
UN experts raise alarm over Kamtok dam project in Tibet
Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 8: A group of 13 UN human rights experts have voiced concerns in a UN communication to the Chinese government about the construction of the Kamtok hydroelectric dam on Tibet’s Drichu River, warning of “dire and irreversible environmental and climate impacts” and the potential for “irreversible destruction of important cultural and religious sites”. The […]