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Running into the flames with his charred flesh hanging like rags off his limbs, Jampa Tenzin, a monk, was hoisted by his fellow protesters as he continued to demonstrate.

Exactly 47 years ago to the day, uncertainty and fear reigned over Lhasa. It had been nine years since troops from the People’s Liberation Army had marched in. Nine years of empty promises,

Vignettes aside, this year’s Kalachakra held at Amaravati will be remembered as the first-ever vegetarian Kalachakra – attendees knew that they were not allowed to eat meat and none of the on-site restaurants and food stalls sold

"All the people who are born in this world are given, through their past actions, the work that is appropriate for them. This is the work set for me. Thus, I have wandered through the realm, expending my human life on learning."

After using the washroom at the apartment of the dissident Andrei Sakharov in Moscow a little less than 30 years ago, a friend reported that the tissue paper neatly stacked in the corner was cut up "Week in Review"

Recently, there has been a spate of articles on Gendun Chophel in Phayul: two of them reviews of a Swiss filmmaker Luc Schaedler's documentary on his life, cursory like blurbs on DVD jackets.

If you walk into an Internet room in Tibet's capital,Lhasa. There were no Chinese soldiers in the room, and no visible government censors nearby. A sign on the wall, however, reminded

I was a medical officer at the DTR Hospital in Mundgod Settlement for one year from August, 2004 to August, 2005. It was a time of great learning, trying to understand the intricate life lines of my own community.

I read Seidman’s article months ago when a friend of mine sent it to me. The article is a couple of years old but the situation has not changed for the better.

While the international community celebrates with the Palestinians their recent elections, we should not forget that the sovereign Tibetan nation, which has been illegally occupied by the People’s