Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile, today rejected China’s allegations, linking the group to a self-immolation protest in Tibet, as “baseless and fallacious.” Speaking to Phayul, TYC President, Tsewang Rigzin dismissed Beijing’s charges as “futile attempt” to defame the popular Tibetan organisation
A host of top political leaders and intellectuals in the Indian state of Kerala received the south zone Tibetan parliamentary delegation, currently lobbying in south India for international intervention in the ongoing crisis in Tibet,
Tenzin Wangmo was born in 1991 and joined Dechen Choekhorling nunnery in childhood. On October 17, 2011, she walked to Sumdo Bridge in Ngaba in northeastern Tibet and set herself on fire. With this she became the first female Tibetan self-immolator and as the flames engulfed her body, Wangmo called out for an end to religious repression, and the Dalai Lama’s return. She was 20. Ninety-eight people have set themselves on fire since 2009. Their average age is 25.
Tibetan Parliamentarians on an all-India lobbying campaign for global intervention in the crisis in Tibet have met with the Honourable Governor of Odhisha Murli Chandrakant Bhandare and other senior leaders of the state in Bhubaneswar city.
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to take part in extensive discussions beginning tomorrow with some of the world’s top scientists and philosophers on topics ranging from quantum physics to neuroscience to Buddhist and Western understanding of consciousness.
Honouring the calls made by Tibetan self-immolators for unity among the Tibetan people, hundreds of Tibetans in Tawu region of eastern Tibet have pledged not to indulge in any internal conflicts or in-fighting. A monastery in the Minyag Nagtren region of Tawu initiated the move, encouraging local Tibetans
In new military directives issued by the Chinese government for the year 2013, the largest army in the world has been told to prepare for war and bolster its ability to win a battle based on rigorous training on an actual combat basis.
A senior minister in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has pledged to raise the issue of Tibet in the Indian Parliament. Shivpal Singh Yadav, Minister of Public Works Department, made the pledge in a letter addressed to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Beneath the wave of self-immolations that has understandably come to dominate the current discourse on Tibet, a less dramatic undercurrent of resistance is transforming the landscape of Tibetan activism. This new force is the pan-Tibetan, self-reliance grassroots movement known as Lhakar.
One of the longest serving officials of the Tibetan government and a close aide of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Ven. Tarha Tenzin Choenyi breathed his last in the exile headquarters of Dharamshala today. The Kashag and the Central Tibetan Administration expressed its “deep condolences”
