Tibetan college students in south India and activists from the Tibetan settlements in the Indian state of Karnataka, south India organised a day-long fax jam campaign targeting the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on Thursday as a part of the Tibet Global Action Day.
The Dharamshala based Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE) in a press release called upon the international community for stronger support to end the alarming instances of self-immolations Tibet. On November 3, Palden Choetso a 35-year old Tibetan nun from the Gaden Choeling nunnery
Chairman McGovern, Chairman Wolf, Commission Members, thank for giving me the opportunity to testify before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
This is my first visit to Washington, D.C., since assuming the office of Kalon Tripa of Tibet following the historic transfer of political authority by His Holiness the Dalai Lama earlier this August.
Statement of Maria Otero, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, and Commissioner, Congressional-Executive Commission on China U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Hearing on Congressional-Executive Commission on China: 2011 Annual Report
A 25 year old Tibetan refugee living in India, set himself on fire, in front of the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital New Delhi today. Indian policemen on security at the Chinese Embassy tried to extinguish the fire that was quickly spreading to his entire bod
On February 27, 2009, the 24 year-old monk Tapey from Kirti Monastery in Amdo, Ngaba, died from self-immolation; it was perhaps the first time that someone from within the Tibetan region used self-immolation to express his will. I wrote in an article titled
On a day when the topics of discussion at the Koyasan University auditorium ranged from the genetic information of cells to the complex Buddhist ideas of Dharmakaya, His Holiness the Dalai Lama methodically shared his ideas in drawing closer the two poles of human intellectual excellence.
Coinciding the two day G20 Summit in Cannes, France, Tibetans under the aegis of Global Day of Action for Tibet protest stormed Chinese Embassies and Consulates in 60 cities of more than 25 countries across the world.
Phayul is receiving confirmed reports of yet another self-immolation by a Tibetan nun in Tibet. Peldon Choetso (also known as Choesang), 35, a Tibetan nun from the Gaden Choeling (also called Dharkar Choeling) near Nyitso monastery in Kham Tawo region of eastern Tibet
Sonam Choedon, a Tibetan woman in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal doused herself in kerosene and attempted self immolation after Nepali police repeatedly curbed what was a largely peaceful demonstration by Tibetan refugees on Wednesday.
