Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has begun a special discourse on Buddhist teachings in Dharmasala. During the 10-day-long spiritual discourse, the Dalai Lama would explain the meanings of Buddhist scriptures to the devotees.
China said a boy picked by the Dalai Lama as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism and missing since 1995 is leading a "happy, normal" life, as his Beijing-selected replacement surfaced at a monastery.
As the Indiana Jones films showed, Nazis, new age mumbo-jumbo and exotic locations are a formula that works. Christopher Hale's gripping and well-researched tale of an SS-sponsored scientific mission to Tibet in 1938-39 has the whole shebang
Terrorism and fundamentalism currently are on the world's radar. But in the zest to hunt down the Husseins and bin Ladens, the world may have forgotten the path to change via non-violent means regarding Tibet.
Not many people have tried their hands at doing something different and come out a winner. Those who have made it have consciously or unconsciously left their footprints behind. In the Tibetan music world, Rangzen Shouno had
When the world began the year with all sorts of celebrations Friends of Tibet, India, marked it with the launch of their boycott campaign against the use, purchase and sale of Chinese goods.
There has been a slow start to the resumption of tourism to Tibet following the lifting of restrictions on 1 July that were imposed in order to prevent the spread of SARS, and tighter controls appear to be being imposed on tourists entering Tibet from Nepal.
