Program provides training in caring for survivors of torture

Phuntsok Tsering usually spends his days helping Tibetan torture victims find some peace in their new lives in India. For the past four months, Tsering has been living in Olympia, learning new strategies from local practitioners to help do his job better.

‘The Portrait of a Lama as a Nationalist’

‘The Portrait of a Lama as a Nationalist’-On the 11th day of the TYC led All India Relay Hunger Strike at Dharamsala, under the banner of the Release Tulku Tenzin Delek Now campaign, students and staff from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts lent their support to the ongoing campaign. The momentum of the hunger strike has been building up, with the active support and participation of the local residents and promises to erupt if timely and binding actions are not taken.

‘Guiding Star’

‘Guiding Star’ – As night fell on the 12th day of the relay hunger strike, the members of the Mcleod Ganj Shop Association are seen huddled up with prayers on their lips for the release and well being of Tulku Tenzin Delek. The ongoing hunger strike campaign has received immense support and sympathy from the local Indian residents as well as foreign nationals, not just in the form signatures but an increasing number has volunteered to sit on the hunger strike.

Our Bond with India

Last year around this time, a television news channel quoted His Holiness the Dalai Lama as saying that he is willing for Tibet to be a part of China. This shocked many Indians. One of them happened to be the landlord of my Indian college friend living in Pune.

China’s Textbooks Twist and Omit History

The history teacher maintained a blistering pace, clicking from one frame quickly to the next, during a lecture on China’s relations with the world from 1929 to 1939 in one of this country’s most selective high schools.

Tibetan rally reaches Vadodara

As many as 15 Indian-born Tibetan students from Delhi University are on a all India Moto rally to mobilise support and funds demanding release of Tibetan religious leader Tulku Tenzin Delek from Chinese prison.