Contact Celebrates!
November 10, 2022
Contact is 25 years old! We at Contact are immensely proud of what we have achieved in bringing you news and information for 25 years. And now, dear reader, we are saying goodbye in our present format. The news is all there for you online, the need for us to read more →
Time for your say!
November 10, 2022
Contact online will be here until the end of December, when we will be celebrating the story of Contact and the people who have made it happen – and that includes you, dear reader! Have you got a story to tell? Do you remember Contact in its early days? What read more →
TCV Celebrates
October 25, 2022
Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV) School, Upper Dharamshala celebrated its 62nd anniversary on October 23, with hundreds of faculty members, alumni and public gathered. The anniversary celebration was presided over by the Tibetan Government-in-Exile’s Sikyong Penapa Tsering, Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, Justice Commissioners Kyabje Yongzin Ling Choktrul Rinpoche and Jetsun Pema, read more →
Campaigning for Justice
By Mary Trewartha / October 24, 2022
A campaign for the release of Dorjee Tashi, the Tibetan businessman currently serving a life sentence for “loan fraud”, has been launched by his family. Once considered the richest man in Tibet, Dorjee Tashi was arrested in July 2008 in the wake of the mass Tibetan protests that took place read more →
Sikyong and Tibetan Parliamentary Visit to Europe
By Phurbu Lhamo / October 21, 2022
Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), led a delegation of members of the Tibetan Parliament to Germany, Belgium and Sweden where they visited Tibetan communities and supporters of the Tibetan movement. During this two week official trip, Sikyong met key members of the Freidrich Naumann Foundation read more →
Six Tibetans Sentenced
By Tenzin Samten / October 21, 2022
Six Tibetans were sentenced to four to fourteen year prison terms by the Chinese authorities in September on varying charges of “instigating separatism” and “endangering state security”, reports the Tibet Times. The six are from the Serta region of eastern Tibet, they are author Gangkye Drupa Kyab; Seynam; Gangbu Yudrum; read more →
Chinese Communist Party Congress: Bleak News for Tibet?
By Mary Trewartha / October 20, 2022
Tibetans living in Tibet live under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping whose policies over the last ten years have systematically eroded their human rights and seen the loss of their traditional lifestyles, and of their livelihoods that have enabled read more →
Conversations with His Holiness: Mind and Life
By Tenzin Samten / October 18, 2022
Members of the Mind and Life Institute gathered in Dharamshala, the residence of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, from October 12 to 13 to meet His Holiness and to partake in discussions with him as part of their programme Meeting with Mind & Life – Interdependence, Ethics and Social read more →
Covid-19 Restrictions: Two Arrested in Sershul
By Tenzin Samten / October 14, 2022
Rinchen Dhargye and his brother-in-law Namkha from Sershul County in Kham Kardze region in eastern Tibet were arrested by the Chinese police on October 10, reports the Tibet Times. They were questioned about where they went and who they met; they said that they returned straight home after buying groceries read more →
“Do not feel disheartened”, says His Holiness to Tibetans inside Tibet
By Tenzin Samten / October 10, 2022
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s has recently concluded a three-day teaching on teaching on Chapter Two of Dharmakirti’s Commentary on Valid Cognition (Tsema Namdrel) in Tsuglagkhang, the main Tibetan temple in Dharamshala, the seat of his exile home. The teaching was at the request of a group of Taiwanese. During read more →