News

A few hundred Tibetans and supporters gathered yesterday morning outside the Chinese Embassy here amid cold wind and sporadic rain to mark the 45th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising day that falls on 10th March

Thousands of Buddhist devotees assembled in Dharamshala on Sunday to take part in a traditional prayer meeting addressed by Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 50th year as a fully ordained Buddhist monk and pleading for his continued blessings, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and the Tibetan people today offered a long life puja for His Holiness at Tsuklakhang in McLeod Ganj.

"Often I feel discouraged seeing today's youth. But sometimes they do surprise us with such knowledge, courage and love for one's country. So it is difficult to pass any judgment on them" says Tendar, a 78-year-old freedom Marcher from Hunsur

Tibetans living here in self-imposed exile have urged political parties gearing for elections in India, the United States and Taiwan to raise the Tibet issue.

In the first part of a two-part series 'Around Kumbun', Tenzig Sonam, a Tibetan poet and film-maker currently living in New York, goes inside a country he calls his home but does not recognize.

A group of fifteen prominent Canadians sent a letter today to Prime Minister Paul Martin, urging him to meet with the Dalai Lama when he visits Ottawa in April. The fifteen, who make up the Advisory Committee of the visit

Mr. Sarkis Assadourian, MP for Brampton Centre, Ontario has joined 132 other MPs and has signed the letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada in support of Tibet-China negotiations.

A MUMMY of a Tibetan Buddhist monk, believed to be about 500 years old, has been found in India's northern Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, the Hindustan Times.com website reported.

China on Thursday said that talks with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, were possible once he renounced his demand for "Tibetan independence" and fulfilled other pre-conditions of Beijing.