A sand painting made painstakingly grain by grain by Tibetan monks in Manchester has been destroyed - by those who built it. The intricate art work has been put together with coloured sand on a flat platform by monks at the city's town hall, over five days.
Last Monday night the monks at Namgyal monastery broke one of their cardinal rules: no TV except on Sunday nights. For weeks, the monks like the rest of the 100,000 Tibetan exiles in India, had been looking forward to this day when Prime
While considering Tibet to be the core issue in Indo-China talks, the Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch, today said the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, should have raised the issue of human rights violation and destruction of Tibetan art and culture, during his visit to China.
For half her young life, nun Ngawang Sangdrol has been jailed and tortured for defying Chinese occupation. Now she's free, and pleading for help for her homeland, writes Edward Douglas.
Leilani Hotaling of Minnetonka always thought of herself as a Buddhist at heart. "I've wanted to somehow become connected with the Buddhist community," she said. Having done "quite a bit of reading" on Buddhism, she decided to attend the 25th anniversary of the Minnesota Sakya Center.
The Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) expresses shock and anguish over the Indian Prime Minister’s joint Declaration inked with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). India recognized Tibet as an autonomous region of China.
Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) today said it was "disappointed" at India's stand on Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Prime Minister Vajpayee, who is a highly respected leader with a deep knowledge of the issue, has been a strong
