Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will preside over the early morning Losar, Tibetan New Year official ceremony on February 22 at Tsug-la Khang, at the main temple in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala.
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?” This Zen Buddhist koan is sometimes cited by those who follow the ups and downs – mostly downs – of the Sino-Tibetan dialogue.
In a clear case of deep seated political influence over the judiciary in China, a Chinese court in Tibet issued an arrest warrant against a Tibetan who had already been lying in the jail for over four months.
The three Tibetan students who have been pedaling across the major cities and towns in India for exactly a month now, reached the Indian commercial capital Mumbai last week.
Amidst the ongoing self-immolations, another teenaged Tibetan in Tibet set himself on fire and is reportedly dead. The 18 year old teenaged Tibetan, Nya Drul set himself on fire today in the afternoon in Amdo Ngaba,
China on Thursday arbitrarily arrested three monks from a Tibetan monastery in the Tridu region of eastern Tibet according to the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile.
Yet another Tibetan has died in the continuing wave of self-immolation in Tibet. Dhamchoe Sangpo, a monk from Bongthak Ewam Tare Shedrup Dhargey Ling monastery in the Tsongon region of Amdo, eastern Tibet set his body on fire at around 6 am local time in an apparent protest against the Chinese government.
In a fresh warning to Beijing, an international rights group has said the detention of Tibetan pilgrims on their return journey from pilgrimage to India and Nepal, will only escalate tensions in Tibetan regions.
In a powerful message of solidarity, Vietnam’s Supreme Buddhist Patriarch, currently held under house arrest, expressed his support for the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedom.
The Communist Party chief of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region has called for tighter real-name registration requirements for internet and mobile phone usage, and greater supervision of internet.
