Tibetan students of TCV School, Gopalpur perform a drama on the continuing wave of self-immolation protests in Tibet during the four-day Tibetan People's Solidarity Campaign in New Delhi on February 1, 2013. Over 5000 Tibetans from the Indian subcontinent are gathered in the Indian capital to express their solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet and appeal for international intervention in the ongoing crisis. (Phayul photo)
Top leaders of the exile Tibetan administration, including Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay and Speaker Penpa Tsering leading a mass rally in solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet in the Indian capital New Delhi on January 31, 2013. Over 7000 Tibetans from the Indian subcontinent took part in the rally demanding international intervention in the ongoing crisis inside Tibet as part of the four-day Tibetan People's Solidarity Campaign from Jan30-Feb 2, 2013. (Phayul photo)
Various religious leaders holding an interfaith service in solidarity with Tibetans insside Tibet at the Rajghat, the memorial of the father of the Indian nation, Mahatma Gandhi on January 31, 2013. Kalons and members of the Tibetan Parliament along with Tibetan monks and nuns took part in the prayer service on the second day of the four-day Tibetan People's Solidarity Campaign in New Delhi. (Phayul photo)
Over 5000 Tibetans and Indian supporters gather at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium in New Delhi to take part in Tibet solidarity campaigns organised by the exile Tibetan administration. Former deputy PM LK Advani and official representative of the ruling Congress Party, MP Priya Dutt were present on the first day of the four-day event on January 30, 2013. (Phayul photo)
Novice monks perform an Indian classical dance to commemorate the 1000th birth anniversary of the Great Supreme Lord Marpa at the Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat near Bir in Himachal Pradesh on January 27, 2013. The 12th Kenting Tai Situpa, Pema Donyo Nyingche Wangpo, along with Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche Jamyang Dondrub, former Kalon Tripa Samdhong Rinpoche, Kalon Pema Chhinjor, and Speaker Penpa Tsering were present during the occasion. (Phayul photo)
The Amherst Regional Tibetan Association, located in North Hampton in the state of Massachusetts with a population of around 100 Tibetans, has officially become the 30th Tibetan Association in North America.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama waves to devotees at the conclusion of the third day teachings in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, on January 9, 2013. The Tibetan spiritual leader concludes his four-day teachings on Shantideva's A Guide to the Boddhisattva's Way of Life (Tib: Chodjug) on January 10, 2013. (Photo/OHHDL/Tenzin Choejor)
In solidarity with the increasing number of self-immolations inside Tibet, around one thousand Tibetans held a prayer service yesterday at the Mindrolling Monastery in Clement Town, Uttarakhand coinciding with the auspicious full moon day of the 10th Lunar month of year of the Water Dragon.
Long after Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Dalai Lama’s exile, after the Cultural Revolution which left Tibet shattered, after Deng Xiaoping traded communism with consumerist market economy and even after world had given up on Tibet and non-violence, the Tibetans have not stopped doing two things: praying and singing.
Surprising things happen when cultures meet or collide. The best examples are India and China. Both confronted Western powers. India suffered British colonial rule for more than 200 years. China, though nominally sovereign, was bullied and humiliated by the West and, the worst of all, invaded by the Japanese.
