News

TCHRD received confirmed information that Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, the Founder Abbot of Serthar Buddhist Institute died in the evening of 6 January 2004 in a hospital in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.

A big Tibetan delegation will participate in the Fourth World Social Forum to be held at Mumbai, India from 16 to 21 January this year. This will be the first time that Tibetans will join this annual global gathering of civil society movements that began in Brazil in 2001.

Thousands of refugees residing in Chandragiri and Mahendragada areas in the district gave rousing welcome to the visiting Tibetan religious leader Dalai Lama Monday.

A truck overturned on an expressway in Xigaze County of Tibet Autonomous Region, killing four people and injuring 11.

One of the major reason for holding the Tibetan Youth Leadership Training at the Tibetan settlement of Bylakuppe was to provide an opportunity to the participants coming from different places and backgrounds

The first conference of Tibetan medical doctors concluded here with the election of the first Tibetan medical council. The members of this high level medical council were elected today by more than a hundred practitioners of traditional Tibetan technique of healing.

Tibetan Doctors at the first ever conference on Sowa Rigpa casting their votes. The doctors will form a high level medical council as a governing body for Tibetan homeopathic practitioners

The third day of the Tibetan Leadership Training began with the participants assembling early in the morning for day break stretches and exercises followed by an explicit half an hour talk on the essence of Kyambdo.

The Tibetan doctors of Sowa Rigpa (one of the five major fields of studies) will form a medical council. This was announced here at the first conference of Tibetan doctors practicing Tibetan medicine.

Meghan C. Howard ’04, the student who interrupted Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s Dec. 11 speech to protest China’s occupation of Tibet, will likely face disciplinary action next week.