Rocking for Tibet
By Chris Healey and Ugolino Vivaldi / December 18, 2013
Rock and roll music echoed in the Kangra Valley on the evening of December 10 to celebrate the combined anniversary of Human Rights Day and the Dalai Lama’s awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. Renowned Indian band Parikrama headlined the festival, which also included performances of Tibetan traditional music and read more →
Unforgettable Experience
By Apurva Kashyap / December 12, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: English Intermediate Class and Contributing writer When I first packed my bags and decided to leave Delhi in search of the cliched ‘peace’ that we often find our hearts devoid of, I had no idea I’d get so much more than that. On my first day read more →
Campaigning for Hope
By Tashan Mehta / November 29, 2013
I meet Kunsang outside Tibet Hope Café, and we walk up the hill to Café Budan. On the way, we gather a following of dogs. Kunsang gets me a chai, orders an Americano for himself and then disappears. He returns with three packets of biscuits which he breaks up for read more →
From Australia to McLeod Ganj
By Maddi Check / October 22, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: English Elementary Class and English Conversation Class After nearly three and a half years of travelling, I decided to put my teaching skills and awful singing voice to good use. I am from Australia and somehow found myself living in Mcleod Ganj and teaching Elementary English read more →
100,000 prostrations that change a life
By Sarah Al-Bashtali / August 30, 2013
Four years ago, Dolma became a nun. She did 100,000 prostrations in the temple, 100,000 mandala offerings and 100,000 prayers. Then she went to Tso Pema (Rewalsar) to ask her spiritual leader for permission to change her life. He agreed and gave her the red chupa, which she has worn read more →
A Tibetan Heart
By Miranda Hall / August 21, 2013Wearing low-hanging green jeans, a bright Bob Marley hoodie, sunglasses, a flat cap and an enormous grin, Norbu swaggers into the cafe where we are meeting, stopping at every table on the way to fist-bump his friends. This carefully constructed image, however, is far-removed from the educated, passionate poet who read more →
Telling Tales
By James Thomas / August 9, 2013
Volunteer Job at Lha: Writer and English Conversation Class. I’ve met so many wonderful people here from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures. Most of the tales I have heard are too tragic to fully comprehend. Working with refugees and the exiled Tibetan community has certainly been one read more →
How two Israelis started giving conversation classes at Lha
By Dr Aliza Florenthal / July 10, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: French Conversation Class His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us about compassion, donating, and doing something useful for the benefit of others in our short life. That is how my daughter and I came to step into the Lha office. At Lha you are received with read more →
“To Experience and Learn”: My Month in Dharamshala
By Shraddha Gupta / June 25, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: Contributing Writer and English Tutor. People have different reasons for volunteering – my reason for living this opportunity was to “experience and learn”. My thanks go to Lha, because although from the outside, what Lha does might look like a drop in the ocean, I found read more →
“We Will Succeed”
By Frencesca Leaf / June 24, 2013
Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay was born in 1968 in a Tibetan refugee settlement in northern India. While reflecting on his past during a 2011 interview with ABC, he shared “My parents left Tibet in 1959. My father was a monk. His monastery was you know bombarded….it was reduced to rubble read more →