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“Speaking as an ordinary Tibetan and a Buddhist monk, these incidents of self-immolation are very very sad,” said His Holiness the Dalai Lama today at a press conference in the northern Japanese city of Sendai. “The leadership in Beijing should look into the ultimate cause of these tragic incidents

The president of the Tibetan Women's Association (TWA), Dolkar Lhamo Kirti briefly met with a visiting member of the 17th Communist Party of China Central Committee, Lu Hao in the Indian capital New Delhi on Wednesday and attempted to handover a petition

Tibetan college students in south India and activists from the Tibetan settlements in the Indian state of Karnataka, south India organised a day-long fax jam campaign targeting the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on Thursday as a part of the Tibet Global Action Day.

The Dharamshala based Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE) in a press release called upon the international community for stronger support to end the alarming instances of self-immolations Tibet. On November 3, Palden Choetso a 35-year old Tibetan nun from the Gaden Choeling nunnery

A 25 year old Tibetan refugee living in India, set himself on fire, in front of the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital New Delhi today. Indian policemen on security at the Chinese Embassy tried to extinguish the fire that was quickly spreading to his entire bod

On a day when the topics of discussion at the Koyasan University auditorium ranged from the genetic information of cells to the complex Buddhist ideas of Dharmakaya, His Holiness the Dalai Lama methodically shared his ideas in drawing closer the two poles of human intellectual excellence.

Coinciding the two day G20 Summit in Cannes, France, Tibetans under the aegis of Global Day of Action for Tibet protest stormed Chinese Embassies and Consulates in 60 cities of more than 25 countries across the world.

Phayul is receiving confirmed reports of yet another self-immolation by a Tibetan nun in Tibet. Peldon Choetso (also known as Choesang), 35, a Tibetan nun from the Gaden Choeling (also called Dharkar Choeling) near Nyitso monastery in Kham Tawo region of eastern Tibet

Sonam Choedon, a Tibetan woman in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal doused herself in kerosene and attempted self immolation after Nepali police repeatedly curbed what was a largely peaceful demonstration by Tibetan refugees on Wednesday.

On the eve of the G20 summit in Cannes, France, Tibetans stormed the Chinese embassy in the national capital, demanding China to immediately cease its repressive policies in Tibet. Since March this year, ten Tibetans have set themselves on fire in Tibet,