“Large groups of soldiers in camouflage carried automatic rifles, metal rods with spiked tips and fire extinguishers, while police buses, trucks and armoured personnel carriers blocked the streets.”
Hundreds of Tibetans and supporters under the aegis of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) Dharamshala held a candle light vigil yesterday evening here in the Tibetan exile headquarters.
Calling for a judicial review of the government's failure to give the Dalai Lama a visa earlier this month, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the president of the opposition Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has invited the Tibetan spiritual leader
In one of the strongest political statements since the transfer of his political power, Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today joined a call for a day-long hunger fast and prayer service
“In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes,” or so said pop culture icon Andy Warhol. But are world events, revolutions, natural disasters also destined to suffer Warhol's 15 minute fate?
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be joining a mass prayer gathering tomorrow at Tsug-la Khang in the exile seat of Dharamshala. The day-long prayer session and hunger fast is being organised by the Kashag
A group of 35 Tibetan parliamentarians are currently sitting on a 24-hour hunger fast in the Indian capital city of New Delhi. Led by Speaker Penpa Tsering and Deputy Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, the Tibetan lawmakers
The Tibetan Women’s Association and its 56 chapters spread across the globe have organized global solidarity actions: peace rallies, candle light vigils and prayer services in honor of martyr Tenzin Wangmo,
In wake of the fiery episode of self-immolations in Tibet, China is reportedly planning to send 20,000 Chinese officials to Tibetan villages in the so called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to “re-sculpture the minds of Tibetans”.
Although the revolution in Libya is no longer in the headlines, that country’s attempt to move from dictatorship to democracy holds important lessons for Tibet. One lesson is that political change
