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Two Octobers ago, the Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal, one of America's highest civilian honors, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked of a "special relationship between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the United States

The US President Barack Obama's emissary, Valerie Jarrett flew to Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh where she called on the Dalai Lama. Jarrett, a Senior Obama`s Advisor and an Assistant for Intergovernmental Relat

amyang Norbu’s recent opinion piece "waiting for mangtso" served as, among other things, a timely reminder to our (or at least to me) collective political insen

According to Chhime Chhoekyapa, the Dalai Lama’s secretary, the Tibetan leader plans to visit Arunachal Pradesh during the second week of November. A visit to Tawang w

The Obama Administration may think its decision to cold shoulder the Dalai Lama on the Tibetan leader's upcoming trip to Washington is smart politics. But if the leader of the free world doesn't stand up for religious freedom, who will?

I started pecking out this piece over a month ago in the garden of Nalanda Koti, my old bungalow in McLeod Ganj. On this particular visit to India I was struck by

Incursions by the Chinese Army into Indian territory are making headlines in the media again. This is good. Not because the Chinese persist with trespassing into Ind

There is a quiet revolution taking place in the world of Chinese official media. In the beginning Xinhua (or whatever its first incarnation was known) was the w

The Dalai Lama arrived in Taiwan late last Sunday night on his third visit to Taiwan. This visit differed from past visits because the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)

At a time when the global power structure is qualitatively being transformed, the economic rise of China and India draws ever more attention. But the world has taken