“Buddhist Economics” : A Possible Solution to Today’s Economic Crisis
By Contact Staff / November 1, 2011The disturbances in Athens started months ago, after the painful recognition that Greece’s ongoing financial crisis might ultimately stifle the Greek people’s future opportunities for economic advancement. Spanish youth have been demonstrating against the political and economic elite since this past May. The bloody demonstrations in the Arab world began read more →
Local Indo-Tibetan Meeting Promises Bright Future
By Contact Staff / November 1, 2011On the 20th of October, the heads of around 35 Indian and Tibetan organizations met at the Suriya Hotel to convene a collective “meeting of the minds” in Dharamsala. Organized by the Tibetan Center for Conflict Resolution and the Dharamsala Tibetan Settlement Office, this meeting aimed to find constructive ways read more →
Children Sports Tournament Organized by Five Volunteers
By Contact Staff / November 1, 2011
On October 1st, Dharamsala’s first ever kids’ Football and Handball Tournament began at Gyalyum Chemo Hall. The four boys’ football teams and two girls’ handball teams were entirely made up of children aged 8 to 11 years old, all students at the TCV Day School. Everything started when six volunteers read more →
To Burma with Love
By Contact Staff / October 30, 2011
The Burmese folk gathered at the bus station, festooned with khatas presented by TWA and SFT, basking in handshakes, hugs, tears and wide smiles from friends, and I felt in my heart that something very special had happened in these last few days. This was the third annual visit by read more →
Lha’s 2011 Cultural Exchange Program a Success
By Contact Staff / October 1, 2011
Since 2002, Lha has been bringing groups of students from other countries to McLeod Ganj for a Cultural Exchange program. This year 82 students participated from six different academic institutions. Lha’s final group of students for the 2011 Cultural Exchange program bid farewell to McLeod Ganj and their friends in read more →
Tibetans Protest after TTibetan Flag & Dalai Lama’s Portrait Are Torn Down on Chinese National Day
By Contact Staff / October 1, 2011
Protests took place Saturday, October 1st, in Kardze in eastern Tibet after a large portrait of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan flag were torn down from the three-story building on which they were publicly displayed. The identities of those who put up the flag and the photo remain unclear. read more →
Tibet’s Environmental Degradation a Global Issue
By Contact Staff / October 1, 2011Our environment is in a state of crisis. From the recession of ancient glaciers around the globe to the extinction of countless species, the natural world is being drastically altered by the habits of industrial societies. Because of over-consumption, pollution, industrialization, increased globalization and extensive use of fossil fuels, the read more →
Eleven Monks on “Mourning March” Reach Dharamsala
By Contact Staff / October 1, 2011
Marching into McLeod Ganj after a 23 day journey across India, the 11 monks from Ganden Jangtse Monastery who set out on foot from Pune on September 3rd reached the Tsuglagkhang Temple at noon, triumphantly shouting “Victory for Tibet!” and waving Tibetan and Indian flags. Each sat wreathed in khatags read more →
Dr. Lobsang Sangay Takes Political Power
By Contact Staff / September 1, 2011
On August 8th at the Tsuglagkhang temple complex, Lobsang Sangay was inaugurated as the third democratically elected Kalon Tripa, or political chief executive, of the Tibetan government in exile. He was the first to be elected after the Dalai Lama’s announcement that he would withdraw from political power. Following a read more →
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Imparts Three Days Teachings to South Asians
By Contact Staff / September 1, 2011
On request by a large group of South Asians, His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivered a three day spiritual teaching to his Buddhists devotees at the Tsuglakhang temple in McLeod Ganj. The teachings began on the morning of August 30 and went on till afternoon of September 1. The topic read more →