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‘George’ Dundul Namgyal Tsarong, 91, died 3:30 pm, June 18th 2011 in a hospital in Dehra Dun, India. Dundul Namgyal was born in 1920 in Lhasa as the eldest son of DASANG DAMDUL TSARONG, the commander-in-chief of the Tibetan army.

Once again the small Tibetan world in exile seems to be torn apart by an emotional and political dispute over the devolution of the administrative and political powers of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the democratically elected organs of the Tibetan Administration and over the change of the title of “Tibetan Government-in-Exile” in Tibetan language to “Central Tibetan Administration”.

I remember that buoyant year of 2002. It wasn’t a long time ago by any means. I can tell just by looking – the young tree sapling that one chief guest of a function planted to celebrate your growth and long life still looks much the same

In my years as an outsider participant in the Tibetan struggle, I became accustomed to thinking of it being guided by two sails: one dedicated to pushing the issue of Tibet’s political future ahead

Karma Samdrup is falsely under arrest, he has been for one year and 5 months already. Do people remember who he is? He is the Karma who is referred to as the “King of Heavenly Beads”, the Karma who set up the first non-governmental environmental protection organisation

The recent changes to the Tibetan Charter have potentially changed the very foundation of Tibet’s political struggle, and yet these changes happened so quickly that many questions are left unresolved. Some are practical questions about what exactly these changes mean.

On Wednesday, the Dalai Lama definitively declared that he would reject any appeal to continue serving as a political leader of the Tibetan community outside of China. It was

Every day, Tibetans risk their lives to speak up for the Dalai Lama's return and against Chinese policies that constrain their free access to their spiritual leader. But Beijing

Hundreds of Tibetan exile officials, parliamentarians and representatives of the settlements are meeting to discuss and decide on the future political status of His Holiness

There have been many media reports recently about the Karmapa name and institution. I did not respond to them because I did not want to add unnecessary public controversy while the investigation was at a critical stage