For those who wonder if there is more to life, Sogyal Rinpoche may just have the answer. Anna King Murdoch reports. The one thing that is instantly noticeable about the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche is that he looks a really happy man.
Relations with Tibet took a healthy step forward recently with the Jan. 20 launch of the Taiwan-Tibet Exchange Foundation, a nongovernmental agency charged with handling relations with the Tibetan government-in-exile.
In the wake of recent media reports about a proposed visit of Tibetan delegation to Tibet in March this year, speculations are rife in Dharamsala, the exile Tibetan headquarters since the brutal suppression of Tibet by the PLA troops.
For the first time, China has sentenced a dissident on charges of terrorism. Wang Bingzhang, a longtime resident of the United States, was jailed for life for allegedly plotting to blow up the Chinese embassy in Thailand as well as roads and bridges in China itself.
On February 10 the International Campaign for Tibet sponsored a roundtable on Tibetan Democracy at its office in Washington, D.C. Two visiting Tibetan parliamentarians, Deputy Chair Dolma Gyari and Venerable Tsering Phuntsok, led the discussion
The annual report of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy says Chinese atrocities in the occupied Tibet continued in 2002 when an activist, Lobsang Dhondup, was hanged.
The image of a beaming eighty three-year-old elderly lady coming out of an optician’s room was a sight well worth watching. In an effort that is purely ‘service to the people oriented’, TYC Kathmandu in association with an INGO that wishes
