Tibetan Women’s Association, the largest women’s group in the exile Tibetan community, today observed World Environment Day on the theme “Think. Eat. Save.” This year’s theme ‘Think. Eat. Save’ is a global anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages the reduction of ‘food print.’
In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC on May 8, 2013, Sikyong Lobsang Sangay made three startling statements: a) democracy for Tibet was out and Communist Party rule was okay, b) genuine autonomy for Tibet could be for a limited duration, and c) China would have discretion over military deployment in Tibet. Specifically, the Sikyong stated:
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has no immediate plans of visiting Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region under the People’s Republic of China, according to a senior official at his Private Office. Quelling recent speculations, Ngapa Tsegyam, Secretary at the Dalai Lama’s Private Office
The next phase of Communist China’s destruction of Lhasa came innocuously enough with Deng Xiaoping’s “Liberalization”, starting from the turn of the eighties. In the groundbreaking cartographic study published by the Amnye Machen Institute, Map and Index of Lhasa City by Christophe Besuchet, a more specific time period is provided in the introduction.
One of India’s best known celebrity hair stylist, Jawed Habib today inaugurated a hair styling training course for Tibetan youths at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, near Dharamshala. The hairdressing course offered by the Tibetan Career Centre, an undertaking of the Department of Home
In continuing crackdown on “crimes” related to the self-immolation protests in Tibet, two monks have been sentenced to three years in prison for offering prayers for Tibetan self-immolator Wangchen Norbu who passed away in his fiery protest last November. According to reports, the two monks, Tsundue, 27 and Gedun Tsultrim
If odds are to be believed, Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama might be visiting Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region under the People’s Republic of China, this September. Organisers of the trip, a Hong Kong based religious group is confident that the Dalai Lama will be able to make the visit
Regardless of the clarion call made by Dr. Yangchen Dolkar a decade ago, then serving at one of the largest Tibetan settlements in South India, the general approach and perception of the Tibetan community towards the virus oscillate between callous indifference to frantic intensity. Ironically this paradoxical mix of approach persists despite gradual swell in HIV/AIDS infection instances and a decade long awareness campaigns spearheaded by the Department of Health (CTA), CHOICE and other NGOs, community leaders and individual volunteers.
Tsering Woeser-la’s recent clarion call ““Our Lhasa is on the Verge of Destruction! Please, Save Lhasa!”, stirred me to undertake this modest history project. I thought it would be worthwhile to provide, as aide mémoire, brief overviews of the different periods in the destruction of the Holy City, which began when the
One of the world’s oldest human rights organisations called upon China to take immediate steps to address the current emergency in Tibet and denounced the “intensification of the military build-up in Tibet.” The International Federation of Human Rights adopted the Resolution
