Secular Ethics and Universal Responsibility
By Okechukwu Onwunli / January 13, 2020
His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his views on the importance of secular ethics and the enduring ties between the Chinese and Tibetan people at an event hosted by the Office of Tibet at the Tibetan Community Centre, Phuntsok Deshe in Queens, New York. From his residence in the Tibetan read more →
HR in Tibet “Continue to Worsen”
By Mary Trewartha and Tenzin Dadon / January 10, 2020
The United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China* (CECC) released its report for August 2018 to August 2019 on January 8; it states that Congress and the Trump Administration should urge China to stay out of the Dalai Lama’s succession plans, allow unrestricted access to Tibet and recognise the role Chinese read more →
HRW: China Intensifies its Abuse
By Ray Sorensen / January 10, 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that in 2019 China increased its repression of human rights through restricting the internet; cracking down on activists and non government organisations (NGOs); deploying biometrics, artificial intelligence and big data to monitor and control behaviour; extending censorship and manipulating the discussion about its human rights read more →
China’s “Two Sessions” Season
By Ben Byrne / January 10, 2020
January was local “two sessions” season across China. These meetings include provincial-level law makers and political advisors and focus on local economic and social development plans for the coming year. Delegates work towards the achievement of a full Xiaokang society, which roughly translates as a moderately prosperous society in all read more →
Religious Activities Banned
By Tenzin Samten / January 8, 2020
The Education Department of China has ordered parents of children in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, not to engage their children in any religious activities or to take their children to faraway places during the current long winter holiday, or they will face the consequences, reports the International Campaign for read more →
35,000 People Gather in Bodh Gaya for Teaching
By Tenzin Dadon / January 7, 2020
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama concluded his five-day teaching on January 6. An estimated 35,000 people from 67 countries – primarily China and Taiwan – attended the teaching. His Holiness began the teaching with Gyalsay Thokme Sangpo’s Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (Laklen sodunma). He advised that one cannot read more →
Larung Gar Abbot’s International Centres Shut Down
By Kritika M Narula / January 5, 2020
Larung Gar’s senior abbot Khenpo Sodargye issued a statement on December 30, 2019 about the closure of the Bodhi Institute of Compassion and Wisdom, an American non profit organisation, led by Khenpo Sodargye, which aims to propagate Buddhist teachings and philosophy around the world. He declared that all affiliated organisations read more →
International Awards for Tibetan Filmmaker
By Tenzin Samten / December 27, 2019
Tsering Wangmo, a documentary filmmaker, born and brought up in the Ladakh Tibetan settlement as one of the second generation of Tibetans living in the diaspora, has won three awards at the My Hero International Film Festival (MHIFF). Wangmo’s Conversations with My Mother won the prestigious 2019 Eva Haller Women read more →
His Holiness Visits Bodh Gaya
By Aparna Ramachandran / December 26, 2019
His Holiness arrived in Bodh Gaya on the night of December 24 for his annual fortnightly visit to the city. Several thousand Tibetans, foreigners, and Indians gathered to catch a glimpse and receive blessings from His Holiness. En route to the Mahabodhi temple, His Holiness gave a small press conference. read more →
Reincarnation: “Why Are You in a Hurry?”
By Ben Byrne / December 25, 2019
China’s Document No 5 from 2007, which states that the process for the recognition and enthronement of Tibetan Buddhist reincarnates must be supervised and approved by the Chinese government, has recently come in for intense criticism from various organisations across the world. Tibetan Buddhist leaders in Europe rejected China’s stance read more →