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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

I have always looked for the opportunity to practice His Holiness the Dalai Lama's advice that there should be more people-to-people contact between Tibetans in and outside Tibet and between Tibetans and Chinese-a piece of advice that has

Wangyal la´s recent article “the four ignoble truths of Tibetan Buddhism” is thought provoking. It motivated me to attempt this piece of writing. His article resembles a poetry that depicts the facial imperfections of a philosopher rather than the philosophy in question. The poet, it seems, is

If the Buddha had lived in today's world, he would have simply written a self-help guide and called it "How to End Suffering". He would have written it in the vernacular and wanted it to be translated into as many languages as possible.

Early one morning in April 1998, a middle-aged Tibetan named Thupten Ngodup poured gasoline over himself in a public toilet in downtown New Delhi and struck a match.