Tibet: No Respite from Repression
By Dhriti Agarwal / January 30, 2017
The latest report of Human Rights Watch, a New York-based human rights group, highlights the increasing violations of human rights occurring under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rule and affecting Tibetans and other minority groups living in China, including the Muslim Uyghur population in East Turkestan or Xinjiang. In its press read more →
China Appoints a Tibetan as the New TAR Governor
By Lobsang Tsering / January 26, 2017
Mr Che Dalha (Qi Zhalha in Chinese), 59, was appointed by the Chinese Communist Party as the new chairman of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) on January 16. This post is equivalent to that of governor. Mr Che Dalha replaced Losang Gyaltsan who is now chairman of the Standing Committee read more →
City of Human Rights?
By Sean Fitzpatrick / January 23, 2017
The Swiss government has drawn criticism after clamping down on protest during Chinese president Xi Jinping’s recent tour of the country and its United Nations (UN) offices at Geneva. The trip was the first of its kind since the Chinese administration’s visit to the country in 1999, which was marked read more →
Outcry Against Chinese Interference in Kalachakra Participation
By Sean Fitzpatrick / January 17, 2017
Tibetan and Human Rights groups have spoken out against Chinese obstruction of Tibetan religious and civil freedoms in the run up to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 2017 Kalachakra celebration, amid Chinese denials of interference in the matter. The Chinese government prevented thousands of Tibetans attending His Holiness’s Kalachakra initiation, read more →
“There will be change in Tibet” Announces the Dalai Lama as the 34th Kalachakra Initiation Comes to an End UPATED
By Lauren Chaplin / January 17, 2017
Saturday January 14 marked the end of the 34th Kalachakra initiation, performed in Bodh Gaya by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. During the days of teaching, His Holiness spread messages of hope to his devotees, declaring that “there will be change in Tibet”. This was not the only change he read more →
Kalachakra: Teachings Begin
January 7, 2017
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has begun the preliminary Kalachakra teachings in Bodh Gaya, starting with a recitation of the Heart Sutra in Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan, a salutation from Abhisamayalankara and one verse of the mandala offering. His Holiness then continued the teaching with Shantideva’s A Guide to the read more →
Kalachakra 2017
By Sean Fitzpatrick / December 23, 2016
What’s happening? His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be performing his 34th Kalachakra initiation next month, at the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment at Bodhgaya, India. Requested by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA; The Tibetan Government-in-Exile), the much-anticipated Kalachakra ceremony will form the centrepiece of this year’s Tibetan spiritual calendar. read more →
Nuns Make History
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / December 23, 2016
On a momentous day for Buddhism, 20 Tibetan nuns have received their Geshema qualification – the first to do so in history. The degree is the highest academic feat in Tibetan Buddhism and involves at least a decade of rigorous philosophical study. For centuries, it has been possible only for read more →
International Recognition for Shokjang
By Charlotte Wigram-Evans / December 22, 2016
The case of prominent Tibetan writer Druklo has attracted the attention of the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Despite denying all allegations, Druklo – known by his pen name Shokjang – was imprisoned for “separatism” in February this year. He was given a three-year sentence, and Students for read more →
Is China Scared?
By Mary Trewartha / December 19, 2016
China is loudly complaining, once again, about another country welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama and offering him the accolades due to his position and the reverence in which he is held across the world. On this occasion, His Holiness the Dalai Lama met the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, read more →