HARD LIFE: Tibetan Buddhist monk, the Venerable Bagdro is preparing to speak in Geelong. The Venerable Bagdro was imprisoned and tortured. Photo: TONY KERRIGAN
Silenced, jailed and tortured for speaking out against the treatment of his people, the Venerable Bagdro, a Tibetan monk, could be forgiven for abandoning his religious crusade.
Chinese archaeologists have discovered a rare 12-kilometre-long glacier dating back over 1,000 years in Basu county of the Qamdo prefecture in east Tibet, according to a report.
A worldwide coalition of travelers today announced the first-ever tourism boycott of Nepal. This boycott comes in response to the illegal forced return of Tibetan refugees into the hands of Chinese authorities.
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department has launched a survey of the Tibetan Scholarship Programme better known as the Tibetan Fulbright Scholarship.
As a result of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s efforts, we were able to re-establish direct contact with the Chinese leadership in September 2002. In continuation of the process my colleague Kelsang Gyaltsen and I, accompanied by two members of the Task Force
With all eyes and ears on the return of the second delegation to China earlier this week, Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mr. Lodi Gyari, who headed the Task Force, said China has acknowledged the efforts made by the Tibetan
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will arrive in Delhi tomorrow after completing his tour of Europe. The 67-year-old Buddhist leader and Tibet's temporal head will head for Ladakh where he will give discourse on Buddhism to the Buddhist population in the region.
The Tibetan community here is set to welcome defence minister George Fernandes, who is scheduled to visit the hill town on June 12. The minister has accepted an invitation from the Tibetan Refugee Centre (TRC), Darjeeling
Sources emanating from the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu state that the Nepal-Tibet border will be reopened on 1 July 2003. The People's Republic of China (PRC) stopped flights between Lhasa and Kathmandu on 27 April 2003 as part of a catalogue
