Miss Tibet pageant stirs controversy
As beauty pageants go, the Miss Tibet competition in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala — home to the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama — would seem a non-event.
China anxious to prove settled life is better for Tibetan nomads
With his concrete house in the square Tibetan style, chrome and plush furniture, a large television set, and a glass-topped barn for his sheep and cows, Ren Que Hu is a display-model for China’s plans to shift its Tibetan and other nomads into fixed abodes.
A Korean Vinaya Master intends to translate Lamrim chenmo into Korean language
A Korean delegation led by Vinaya Master, Venerable Seok Hye Neung, Director of Haein Vinaya Institution based in Korea, visited Dharamshala to receive an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and to explore the possibility of translating the Lamrim Chenmo
Fists fly over living god’s crown
On a narrow winding lane on a Himalayan mountainside, past Indian army soldiers and burly, shaven-headed monks, lies a monastery at the centre of a feud that has split normally gentle Tibetans who revere a living god crowned with a black hat.
Religion struggling with exile and feuding
Tibetan Buddhism is a fusion of Buddhism with the ancient, animistic religions of the rooftop of the world: Bon and Hinduism. It has four schools of thought.
His Holiness to Attend International Buddhist Conference
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will take part in an international Buddhist conference in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 15 October, reports Voice of Tibet radio service. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will participate in a discussion
His Holiness to Attend International Buddhist Conference
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will take part in an international Buddhist conference in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 15 October, reports Voice of Tibet radio service. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will participate in a discussion
Dalai Lama is third most preferred leader to run the world
The Dalai Lama of Tibet has been voted the third most preferred individual that people would like to run the world, according to a poll conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dalai Lama returns to city for forum on future of Tibet
Parliamentarians from around the world are to gather in Edinburgh to meet exiled members of the Tibetan government and discuss the best way forward for the country.
Sino-African Relations and Tibet
As China emerges ever more rapidly as a dominant economic force in the international arena, the global space for Tibetans and their supporters to act against the occupation of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China is shrinking rapidly.