Non-Violence Versus Violence
By Contact Staff / January 1, 2006Some time has now passed since I first heard the news of Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. Apart from newspapers and the internet, it seems to have passed by almost unnoticed here in McLeod Ganj where local people are struggling with their everyday lives; Tibetans with their political activism and spiritual read more →
TAFM Celebrates Tibetan Democracy Day in St. Paul
By Contact Staff / January 1, 2006As teens congregated on the balcony outside a nondescript gray building, sipping soda in jeans and miniskirts, women in rainbow-print chupas and braided hair huddled together speaking Tibetan. At the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota (TAFM) in St. Paul, Minnesota on Saturday, September 2nd, American-born Tibetans mingled seamlessly with new read more →
Chinese Murder Refugees at Nangpa Pass
By Contact Staff / January 1, 2006Dharamsala – As the first survivors of the Nangpa Pass shooting arrive in Dharamsala Tibetans and their supporters have protested at China’s attack on the refugees and ongoing occupation of Tibet. Video footage shot by foreign mountaineers at Cho Oyo advance Everest Base Camp shows the Chinese border guards opening read more →
Maroon, Yellow and Black: Impressions from the Annual Foundation Day Picnic at TCV
By Contact Staff / January 1, 2006It is around two o’clock on the day of the annual picnic and I feel my brain is a bit loaded with impressions. Parades and dances and now Tibetan opera. It is sung in Tibetan, which I don’t understand, so it’s a bit hard to keep up the concentration. Luckily, read more →
Wildlife Awareness Campaign for Tibetans
By Contact Staff / January 1, 2006(A brief report on the outcome of the wildlife awareness campaign since January 2006) In January 2006, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama gave his 31st Kalachakra empowerment at an important Buddhist holy place called Amarvati, in Andra Pradesh, South India. There were over 100,000 devotees who came to receive read more →