Opinions

Development of Tibet is a subject much debated among the Tibetans and often this subject is seen primarily in its political context. In the past history of Tibet you can find references to the development of religion

Nearly one lakh Tibetans have been taking refuge in different parts of India since 1960s. If you notice the major Tibetan refugee settlements are in south while few of the largest settlements and Buddhist monasteries in Karnaka state.

Four and a half decades after he was forced to flee his homeland in the face of annexation by China, the Dalai Lama is as distant now from an independent Tibet as he was then.

This year, on 10th march, the 45th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day, Delhi will see the biggest ever gathering of Tibetans and Tibet supporters in a free Tibet protest rally.

A true follower of the Tathagata does not found his trust upon austerities or rituals, but believes in the giving up the idea of self and relies wholeheartedly on amitabha, the unbounded light of truth, says Paul Carus in The Gospel of Buddha.

This column begins on a sad note─ the demise of Kehnpo Jigme Phuntsok. Like many of us in exile, life in Tibet is second hand information to me or even third or fourth.

The revival in exile of Tibetan opera or Ache Lhamo first took place in the early sixties, in Kalimpong, in Northern India. A frontier town that borders Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal

When the Dalai Lama greeted 2004 with an appeal to settle the insoluble Ayodhya issue, it seemed that here at last might be a peacebroker acceptable to all sides.

The mandir-masjid issue has been so contentious that despite many years and many attempts to resolve it, it continues to remain as tangled as ever.

The Tibetan struggle needs to be freed from the strangleholds of general apathy and deficiency of democratic culture within the movement, argues Tenzin Tsundue.