Mundgod Doeguling Tibetan Settlement consists of nine Camps, one old Age home, one Senior Secondary School and several primary, junior and middle Schools besides major monasteries and nunnery in a total population of 14,000 Tibetans.
It was reassuring to find my hero worship of the Dalai Lama shared by Hollywood actress Uma Thurman's dad, Robert Thurman, 63, the Columbia university professor who happens to be America's leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism.
The Tibetans in Dharamsala were in for a major disappointment when the proposed plan to invite H.H. the Dalai Lama to inaugurate the first ever India-Pakistan cricket match in Himachal Pradesh was blocked by 'reservations' expressed by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
In a press release issued on March 3, Representative Joe Parisi of Wisconsin State Assembly reported the introduction of Assembly Joint Resolution 18, declaring March 10, 2005 as the Tibet Day.
Lower Chauntra in district Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, located 6 km from the Tibetan colony in the small hill town of Bir, isn’t the most obvious location for an enormous educational institute.
The work of upgrading the green book for collection of voluntary contribution by the Central Tibetan Administration from the Tibetan people has been going on for the last two years.
"Chope's life story is compelling reading. His childhood on the Tibetan plains, his family's flight to freedom in Nepal and India and his struggle to acquire an education as a stateless refugee puts this unforgettable autobiography in a class of its own."
