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A first of its kind initiative by a Tibetan to give free film courses to interested Tibetans is underway in Dharamshala, north India. Kalsang Rinchen, former editor of Tibet.net and Phayul is currently holding free film classes under the banner of his production house "Blind Dog

In its latest white paper on sixty years of the so-called ‘peaceful liberation of Tibet’, China lauded the Tibetan people for creating “miracles.” But the communist party’s failure to find a Tibetan to head Tibet, again, is no miracle.

South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu urged his government on Sunday to grant the Dalai Lama a visa to attend Tutu's 80th birthday party, after it denied a visa request in 2009.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will confer an honorary doctor of letters degree on His Holiness the Dalai Lama at its 24th convocation on 5 September, the university said.

Native Tibetans living in Kyegudo in eastern Tibet's Kham Province, who were devastated by a powerful earthquake in April last year, are losing their land to a large number Chinese migrants.

“It seems that China lacks will to resolve the Tibetan issue,” said His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Germany’s Hesse state, Wednesday. The Tibetan spiritual leader was addressing a group of scholars, journalists, and democracy advocates

The fifth Student’s Debate on Tibetan Cultural Studies began yesterday at the Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies, some 12 kms from Dharamshala. The four-day debate organised by the Sarah Working Committee of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), Dharamshala

The largest pro-independence group in exile, the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), is meeting for its annual Working Committee Meeting in the picturesque hill station of Darjeeling, north-east India.

The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his sadness over the self-immolation of a 29-year old Tibetan monk Tsewang Norbu.Speaking to reporters in Hamburg, Germany, the Dalai Lama said he was saddened

Joe Biden, the US vice president, on his last day in China, spoke out on human rights at the Sichuan University in Chengdu Sunday. Speaking to students in Chengdu, the same province where last Monday a Tibetan monk Tsewang Norbu