The Tibetan lamas of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will do several regional performances that include mandala sand painting at the University of Wyoming Union in April. In 1999, Ben Jennings founded a chapter of Students For A Free Tibet at the University of Wyoming.
The Sangh Parivar’s expansion plan has a new target — the Buddhists. The RSS has launched a campaign to ‘‘reach out to four crore Buddhists inhabiting the length and breadth of Himalayas, 1.25 crore of them in India — from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh.’’
The 2002 Miss Tibet, 20 year-old Dolma Tsering, will participate in the Miss Tourism Intercontinental Beauty Contest being organised at Kuching in Malaysia. According to Mr Lobsang Wangyal
Tibet is a cause for Patrick French and that makes it all the more remarkable that this book is not part of what he describes as "the white noise of foreign sympathy". The book is based on French’s latest trip to Tibet and in preparing
Ngawang Sangdrol, the nun who served ten years in prison for peaceful protest before being released nine years before the end of her 21-year sentence on "good behaviour" parole last October, has been allowed to leave Tibet and arrived in Chicago in the US on Friday afternoon (28 March).
Takna Jigme Sangpo, one of the most determined and well known human rights defenders in Tibet, will testify at the 59th UN Commission on Human Rights at the invitation of Dutch-based International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)
The release of the longest-held female Tibetan prisoner could signal a change in policy by the Chinese government and a new willingness to engage exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in dialogue, a leading rights campaigner said.
A Buddhist leader speaking at today's World Peace Forum in Sydney says the violence at this week's student anti-war rallies shows the widespread confusion over the concept of peace.
