Compassion in Health Care UPDATED
By Tenzin Samten / March 13, 2016
His Holiness the Dalai Lama brought his teachings to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester in the United States, where he was undergoing treatment. The Tibetan Spiritual leader spoke to a crowd of 500 Mayo Clinic staff on compassion in health care for about an hour and a half on February read more →
His Holiness Addresses UN Panel
By Mary Trewartha / March 13, 2016
His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed a packed auditorium at a United Nations (UN) human rights conference in Geneva in his capacity as a Nobel Laureate, despite China’s attempt to sabotage the event and urging diplomats to stay away. “One part of the human brain usually develops common sense. Some read more →
Worldwide Observance of Tibetan Uprising Day
By Hannah Dellabosca / March 12, 2016
Tibetan supporters around the world marked Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10, with protest rallies in major cities both a call for renewed attention to the human rights violations in Tibet, and a mark of solidarity with the cause of Tibetan freedom. Events organised by official pro-Tibetan groups such read more →
Tragedy of Two Teenagers’ Self-Immolations
By Tenzin Samten / March 8, 2016
A sixteen year old Tibetan boy, Dorjee Tsering, died three days after he set himself on fire in Dehra Dun in India, the second such protest of the year. On the same day, February 29, Kalsang Wangdue, an eighteen year old monk self-immolated in Karze, the eastern region of Tibet. read more →
Former Kalon Dicki Chhoyang on the Election
By Tenzin Samten / March 8, 2016
Kalon (Minister) Dicki Chhoyang, who headed the Central Tibetan Administration’s department of Information and International Relations for four and half years, resigned from her post on February 29, three weeks prior to the Tibetan election. Her resignation in the midst of election fever has prompted much speculation . On March read more →
Tibetan Mother Arrested for Peaceful Solo Protest
By Jacqueline Tallent / March 5, 2016
Chinese authorities have arrested 33-year-old mother of one, Mang-Ga, in Meruma Township, Ngaba County of Tibet’s Amdo province for staging a solo protest against the Chinese government. At about 12 pm local time on March 1, Mang-Ga walked the main market street of Division 1 holding up a portrait of read more →
Ravage Or Progress?
By Michael Khabie-Zeitoune / March 1, 2016
China is continuing the construction of six dams along a 20-km stretch of the Kyichu river at Lhasa, a tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the south of Tibet, as part of a controversial 3.5 billion yuan ($550 million, £400 million) project. With an estimated completion date of 2030, one read more →
Secret Prayers for His Holiness
By Dorji Kyi / February 28, 2016
Tibetans and supporters all over the world gathered this month to pray for a quick recovery for His Holiness the Dalai Lama who has been having treatment at a clinic in Minnesota in the United States of America. Inside Tibet, despite heavy restrictions and security clampdowns, people have been conducting read more →
No Improvement, says TCHRD
By Lucy McCormick / February 25, 2016
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy 2015 Annual Report on Human Rights in Tibet, published on February 19, highlights China’s continued failure to uphold human rights guarantees in Tibet. The report covers breaches of religious freedom, civil and political rights and the right to privacy, as well as read more →
New Designation for Cities in Tibet
February 25, 2016
Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is no longer the sole city-level administrative unit in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The Chinese administration is upgrading five of the seven prefecture-level administrative divisions of the TAR to cities: Qamdo (Tibetan: Chamdo), Xigaze (Shigatse) and Nyingchi (Nyingtri) have been recently upgraded and Shannan read more →