His Holiness and the US President Consolidate Their Friendship
By Charlotte Wigram- Evans / June 16, 2016
Defying China and deepening his ties of friendship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, United States President Barack Obama welcomed the revered spiritual leader to the White House yesterday. Despite repeated threats from the superpower, the two men have met four times, publicly declare themselves friends and grasped each other read more →
Destruction and Detentions: All in a Day’s Work
By Dorji Kyi / June 15, 2016
Tibetan owned restaurants, shops and private homes have been knocked down by Chinese authorities on a lakeside Tibetan colony in the Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), hundreds of Chinese police officers marched in Tanakma Township of Chabcha County with heavy machinery to tear down the buildings. read more →
Should Miss Tibet Speak Her Mother Tongue?
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / June 14, 2016
Dramatic debate has followed the recent enthroning of the new Miss Tibet. As soon as the crown was placed on 21 year-old Tenzing Sangnyi’s head, people took to the internet to express their opinions on her looks, body, and even more vehemently, her fluency in Tibetan. “It’s shameful,” Phurbu Tralsar read more →
Tibet’s Largest Monastery in Danger of Demolition
By Tenzin Samten / June 13, 2016
The largest Buddhist centre in Tibet is under threat of demolition. Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in the Serta county of Kardze is home to over 10,000 monks, nuns and lay people but may be torn down to comply with China’s new tougher regulations on the number of people one centre read more →
Mining in Tibet Intensifies – as do Demonstrations Against it -UPDATED
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / June 6, 2016
Prime Minister Dr Lobsang Sanjay has spoken out against the illegal mining projects that are only increasing in strength and fervour across Tibet, as well as the violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations, allowed under Chinese law. Three protests in different regions of the country are known to have taken place read more →
The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile Gets Off to a Good Start
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / June 3, 2016
It has been a busy but profitable few days for the 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-exile with the swearing in of legislators, the election of Speaker and the approval of Kalons (ministers) nominated by Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay for his 15th Kashag or cabinet. Newly elected MPs were firstly sworn in by read more →
Sikyong’s Second Term
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / May 28, 2016
Dr Lobsang Sangay has been sworn-in as prime minister, or Sikyong, of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, in the presence of honoured guest His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and in front of 6000 emotional onlookers. The function was held at Tsuglagkhang, the main Buddhist temple of Dharamasala and the home of His read more →
The Fight for Tibet is “Doomed to Fail”
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / May 26, 2016
The UK’s Chinese ambassador, Liu Xiaoming, lost his cool at a talk in the city of Bath, telling Tibetan activists and supporters that their cause is “doomed to failure” and that they will “never succeed, period.” Direct exchanges between representatives of the Chinese government and exile Tibetans are a rarity, read more →
Saka Dawa: the month of merit
By Dorji Kyi / May 25, 2016
The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama graced the prayer ceremonies on 10th and 15th day of the Saka Dawa: the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar at Tsugla-khang, the main temple of Dharamshala’s Tibetan community. Tibetan Buddhists believe that the merits of any good deeds that one read more →
Repression Spreads to Rural Tibet
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / May 24, 2016
The Chinese government continues to violently suppress peaceful dissent in Tibetan areas, a new report from Human Rights Watch has testified. Since the outbreak of widespread unrest in 2008, detentions, prosecutions, and convictions remain commonplace, many now taking place in rural areas which, for the last three decades, have hardly read more →