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 Tibetan struggle needs to be freed from the strangleholds of general apathy and deficiency of democratic culture within the movement, argues Tenzin Tsundue.
Tibet may have been encroached upon by crass modernity,but only in the towns. Elsewhere, it is essentially unchanged, and remains a deeply mysterious, still forbidding land.
We were close to the sacred city of Lhasa when finally I saw it: the legendary Potala with its golden domes and white and deep-red palaces. Here, at last, was the holy of holies; the fabled Shangri-la that was for so long off-limits to travellers from the West.
A rather surprising announcement was made recently by Zhuang Cong Sheng, a senior official of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
If you are a Buddhist you may want to try this, but you would be wise to exercise a degree of caution. Jump from an aircraft at 12,000 feet and adopt the Lotus position. Make sure you have a parachute on.
Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about international affairs is aware of the inordinate skills of China's diplomats to further the interests of the Middle Kingdom.
Karmapa Urgyen Trinley - also sometimes spelt as Orgyen Trinley - has a term for what is holding him back from taking up his seat as head of his Tibetan Buddhist lineage at Rumtek monastery in Sikkim - "environmental problems".
