Opinions

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.

The recent news about certain Indian leaders planning to buy power generated by Chinese dams planned along Nygangchu, a major tributary of Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra river) represents the height of short-sighted international economic diplomacy.

“There’s Michael Jordan, and then there is the rest of us.” This is how Earvin “Magic” Johnson assented to the general consensus that MJ was the unparalleled superstar of the NBA in the 1990’s. Likewise when it comes to moral uprightness and righteousness among Tibetans,

Unfortunate, uninformed, unfair and agonizingly untrue remarks that all the Tibetans are poachers and they should be expelled from India if India were to save wild life shocked most of the Tibetans living in India. Of course, your prescription is unrealistic and has no support

Bursting at the rims of my inbox, spams (or email campaign, as one called it) such as these were the immediate cause, as I blurt out, “The