Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. Today AIDS has become one of the most devastating diseases humankind has ever faced. Since the epidemic began, more than 60 million people have been infected with the virus.
During a talk at the Constitution Club in New Delhi this February, His Holiness the Dalai Lama stressed the importance of a systemic study of the Buddhist philosophy. His Holiness believes that merely having a faith in the religion may not be adequate and emphasized the need for an actual
My parents gave me the name Yangkyab Gyal. This name means "Victorious Deeds of the Holy Spirits." I wonder, now, how my parents were so courageous to do so when I was born in 1966.
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
