I have always looked for the opportunity to practice His Holiness the Dalai Lama's advice that there should be more people-to-people contact between Tibetans in and outside Tibet and between Tibetans and Chinese-a piece of advice that has
More than fifty youth activists from all over North America have gathered at the University of California in Santa Barbara to attend the annual Winter Leadership Training organized by Students for a Free Tibet. The students, twenty-three
The society's chairman, Ven. Banagala Upatissa Nayaka Thera said that thesociety had decided to ask President Mahinda Rajapakse to invite the
Dalai Lama to Sri Lanka, prior to his visit
More than fifty youth activists from all over North America have gathered at the University of California in Santa Barbara to attend the annual Winter Leadership Training organized by Students for a Free Tibet.
The ancient Tibetan practice of sky burial, by which the dead are left exposed for vultures, is to be more tightly regulated, the Chinese government announced yesterday.
Chinese students and intellectuals are expressing outrage at Beijing's decision to prohibit access to Wikipedia, the fast-growing on-line encyclopedia that has become a basic resource for many in China.
An ambitious expansion of the local Tibetan Buddhist monastery could happen within two years, project officials said, assuming all approvals by the Town of Ithaca Planning Board fall into place.
Buddhist Pilgrims of Kalachakra 2006 at Amaravati witness the biggest ever concert in the exile history. According to the organizers, last night’s Tibetan Music concert was the biggest ever concert, even bigger than those two big concerts at Bylakuppe in South India.
The Dalai Lama opened the Kalachakra teachings this week in Amravati, India, with a powerful statement urging Tibetans from inside Tibet to tell Tibetans when they return about the importance of the 'Middle Path' approach towards a genuine autonomy for Tibet.
When was Lord Buddha born? Or when did he attain Nirvana? The answers to such puzzling historical questions may be found in the texts of puranas and scriptures.
