Opinions

Over the centuries, countless explorers attempted to enter the spiritual heart of Tibet – Lhasa. Most failed, and many even died in their attempt. The lucky few who managed to see the magnificent Potala palace at the top of the world

Watching George Bush getting his wrist slapped by the Pope reminded me of something, but at first I couldn’t place it. What was it about the way he gazed at the ceiling while he was being told off about Iraq?

My old-man friend refuses to believe that the 'Inji' soldiers could inflict such violence on Iraqi prisoners, simply because as a refugee he has been sponsored all his life by an Inji

Two years after Tibet participated as an independent country in an Asian relations Conference held to discuss the role of Asia in the post-war and post-colonial period, the Communist Chinese declared its intention to 'liberate' Tibet.

Western fictionalization of the East makes for a formidable oeuvre, bearing authorships of such diverse genre and generation as Marco Polo, Rudyard Kipling, EM Forster, George Orwell, James Hilton, and now William M Bueller.

Recently, a Tibet supporter, arguing to get her support-group to drop the goal of Tibetan independence from their charter, was reported to have said: “…the whole Tibetan independence issue is a myth. Even the flag has been copied from the Japanese.”

Following personal opinion is not to express disapproval of the selected candidates for the year 2005. It is to shed light on fact of the matter by commenting on the policy in general, which I feel, is working against the democratic system.

The Buddha incarnate is coming to Scotland … and he needs your help, says author Isabel Losada. Here, she recalls her quest to assist Tibet’s resistance to Chinese rule and how she came face to face with the great man.

Keeping to the principles of nonviolence as promoted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Tibetans continue to struggle for a free Tibet. Most recently, three Tibetan activists from the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) showed

After the cremation of Thupten Ngodup, when the emotional crowd had finally marched back to McLeod Ganj, a few of us went to pay a visit to his house. It was a brief walk from the cremation-ground by the mountain stream