Opinions

If you thought it’s only in China-occupied Tibet that perils can be brought upon your head for asserting your Tibetanness, think again!

These lines from “The Second Coming” have often been pressed into service in political writing (of the despairing kind) though they are generally misemployed to introduce or set out events that don’t quite come up to the urgency of Yeat’s doom-laden metaphysical vision.

The 17th Karmapa has been finally permitted to visit the United States to attend Kalachakra Puja in Washington, DC. The Dalai Lama, along with his monks of Namgyal Monastery, is conducting the 11-day rituals. A few months ago, the Karmapa Lama made headlines when Himachal Pradesh

China is not a South Asian power, but it has been seeking to build up for itself a strong South Asian presence which could cater to its strategic needs in the long term.

One thing we’ve realized over recent years is that nothing goes up in a straight line forever. China looks like it is about to inherit the world, but Japan looked like that for a while.

Wednesday, on his 76th birthday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be honored at Verizon Center by 11,000 people, including Arun Gandhi and Martin Luther King III, the grandson and son of the two stalwarts of nonviolence.

With countless prostrations from my body, speech and mind, today I attempt to THANK personally His Holiness The Dalai Lama who has touched and affected my life at deepest levels from the day I was born in this world.

The recent changes in the Tibetan government-in-exile have taken place so quickly that most of the diaspora has not had enough time to digest their implications or the reasons for their provenance in the first place

Since ancient times, China has inspired, and at times overawed, travelers and writers from all over the world. The country's old civilization, built on the foundations of complex Confucian philosophical thoughts,

While Tibetans have just wrapped up the historic 2011 election for Kalon Tripa and parliament, Americans are just entering into the 2012 presidential election season. And as Republicans begin to select their candidate against