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When the young Gyatsho Tshering approached the Tibetan government with the idea to build a library he was told that he was crazy. “They said, ‘This is impossible. You’re just dreaming.’” Tshering could see their point

Chinese authorities on July 19 expelled two Tibetan students of a middle school in Labrang, Sangchu (Ch: Xiahe) County, in Gansu Province, for their alleged involvement in a peaceful protest earlier on April 24, this year, sources said.

The delegation will be in Dharamsala from July 1 to 6, and are expected to take part in the public celebrations of the Dalai Lama’s 74th birthday on July 6

Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter. Yet for one month this spring a group of 91 monastics devoted themselves to the corporeal realm of science

What better way to start the week than attending a talk by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa on the preservation of wildlife! That was how the day started for upper TCV students here on Monday, June 29th- an awareness event co-organized by

Sony appears to be the one of the first PC makers to start shipping computers with the controversial preinstalled Green Dam Youth Escort Internet filtering software mandated by China's government

Chinese journalists and media may be ill-equipped for the challenges of creating news programmes palatable to international audiences because of their primary role to convey Government propaganda

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (seated) during a long life offering (Tenshug) Ceremony at the Gyuto Ramoche monastery, his temporary residence near Dharamsala, India, on Friday, June 26, 2009. The 17th Karmapa, one of the most revered Tibetan Buddhist lamas and head of Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, turned 24 on Friday. According to Tibetan lunar calendar, Karmapa is now 25 years old. Special prayers and auspicious offering ceremonies were conducted by hundreds of his followers from different parts of India and other countries for his continued well being and spiritual leadership. The 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje was born on June 26, 1985, to a nomadic family in Bakor, in eastern Tibet. He later escaped Tibet and reached Dharamsala in 2000. (Photo: Tashi Paljor/ OHHK)

A visiting delegation of Human rights activists from Nepal have vowed to continue working for the betterment of Tibetan refugees living in the country

AFTER their stint in Wayao, the Kham Aid Foundation’s volunteer art conservators journeyed deeper into Kham Tibet to check the state of repairs of temples on their itinerary