Amdo to Wisconsin : Tsering’s Story
By Tsering Lhamo / June 19, 2018
I was born in a small village in Amdo in eastern Tibet. When I was four, my mother passed away, leaving nine children behind for my father to nurture on his own. At the age of eleven, I went to India, hoping to pursue a college education there. My journey read more →
A Deeper Experience through Volunteering
By Corinne Dobinson / June 5, 2018
Name: Corinne Dobinson Volunteer Job at Lha: News writer, tutor and conversation class assistant I had the pleasure of volunteering for Lha in April. I was involved in tutoring two students in conversational English, joining the drop-in conversation class in the late afternoons and writing for Contact magazine. I stayed read more →
Delek Hospital: Serving the Community
By Lodoe Gyatso / May 28, 2018
This article about Delek Hospital is the first in our new series of articles about the NGOs (non-government organisations) in the Tibetan exile community. Contact is launching this series of articles to highlight the actions, achievements and concerns of the NGOs – to support them in their work and to read more →
I’ll Be Back Soon!
By Michel Estienne / May 2, 2018
The first time I arrived in McLeod Ganj it was in the nineties. I was on the top of the bus’s roof as we stopped in the main square and the first thing that struck me was how everybody around me was smiling and looking happy. I felt at home read more →
Journey from Bhutan
By Elizabeth Mundy / March 27, 2018
McLeod Ganj is a city swirling with incredible tales. The Kangra Valley with its rolling cedar forests and glowing, molten peaks cradles a resilient Tibetan community, where each person could tell a harrowing story of their family’s exodus across an unforgiving Himalaya icescape or the depravations and hardships that come read more →
Volunteering from Wales
By Ailsa Newcombe / January 31, 2018
Name: Ailsa Newcombe Unlike most of Lha’s volunteers I have never been to McLeod Ganj, nor India, nor Tibet, but I have been volunteering for Lha for eight months now. I live in Wales, part of the United Kingdom, on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park. Like McLeod Ganj, read more →
A Personal and Professional Achievement
By Amelia Rozelle / January 31, 2018
Volunteer Job at Lha: French teacher and contributer to Contact After travelling a while in Asia, I was in Indonesia and supposed to go to Malaysia next. But India had been calling me very strongly for a few months… When I decided to change all my plans for India, the read more →
A True Calling
By Jin Hui Quek / January 21, 2018
There are five Rigpa* in the Tibetan culture, and Sowa-Rigpa is one of them. It is the traditional Tibetan medicine, a complex ancient medical system which incorporates a host of other ancient systems that include traditional Chinese medicine, Indian Ayurvedic medicine and the Unamic-a Perso-Arabic-medical system which has its roots read more →
Perhaps, Someday….
By Nancy Metashvili / December 7, 2017
Back in 1969, when I was a rather young girl who really wanted to meet the Dalai Lama, I set out overland to go to India. Shall we point out, travel was not easy then? Quite a few of us were traveling to India, the media called it the “Hippie read more →
A Wonderful Experience
By Wayne Schlegel / December 1, 2017
My wife Leslie Potter and I have had the privilege of teaching English at Lha for the past two months, she in the Beginners class and I in the advanced. It has been a wonderful experience on many levels, both professional and personal, and we wholeheartedly recommend it to both read more →