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Bad weather forces Dalai Lama to reschedule Tawang trip
NEW DELHI: Tibetan Spritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday rescheduled his trip to Arunachal Pradesh‘s Tawang due to bad weather conditions in the Himalayan region. The Tibetan Spiritual lead was set to leave Guwahati by a chopper, but the inclement weather has forced him to travel by road and change his stop read more →
Dalai Lama calls for complete freedom to choose religion
GUWAHATI: Voicing concern over religious conversion, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Sunday said forceful conversion was not correct and an individual must have freedom to choose religion. Dalai Lama had an emotional reunion with the 5th Assam Rifles jawan who received him after his escape from Tibet in March read more →
‘Physically And Mentally I Am An Indian’, Says Dalai Lama
NDTV, 2 March 2017 Dalai Lama released his Assamese edition of his autobiography at the same event in Guwahati. (PTI) Guwahati: Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel laureate the Dalai Lama today said he was the “longest guest” of the government of India and has now feels like he is an read more →
Almost 6 Decades Later, Dalai Lama Meets The Man Who Gave Him A Safe Passage To India
GUWAHATI — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Sunday had an emotional reunion with one of the five Assam Rifles guards who escorted him to India during his escape from Tibet in March 1959. The Dalai Lama embraced retired jawan Naren Chandra Das at an interactive session organised at read more →
Tibetan PM in Doon, connects with students and community members on strategy to resolve Tibet issue
Times of India, 31 March 2017 DEHRADUN: Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, who is in Dehradun on a five-day official visit, interacted with members of the substantial Tibetan community in the region, and visited schools run by the community on Friday. Sangay, who is referred to as read more →
Dalai Lama in Tawang
The Statesman, Salman Haidar, 30 March 2017 Tawang has a very particular place in India-China affairs. When in 1959 the Dalai Lama fled from Tibet and made his way to India the route he chose took him through Tawang where he and his small entourage of fugitives crossed into India, read more →
China: Major Tibetan Buddhist Institution Faces Further Demolitions
Human Rights Watch, 29 March 2017 (New York) – Chinese authorities should halt the expulsion and political re-education of monks and nuns from a major Tibetan religious institution, Human Rights Watch said today. According to a statement by an abbot of the institution, Chinese officials announced on March 12, 2017, read more →
Soaking up Tibetan culture; replete with spices, flavours
People from across the world flock to Tibetan chefs to learn how to make traditional dishes that are said to have medicinal value. Classes are taken in small rooms across the hill state. While dishing up soul-stirring delicacies, people also get morsels of information on the political situation in Tibet. read more →
In Pics: Australian Team Pay a Visit to Dalai Lama in Dharamsala
The Quint – Mendra Dorjey Sahni – 24 March 2017 Australia and India’s cricket teams are both currently in Dharamsala for the fourth and final test between the sides. The match that starts Saturday will decide the winner of the series. With so much on the line, the Australian read more →
Protesters slam China on human rights
Herald Sun, 23 March 2017 A 19-gun welcome salute for Chinese premier Li Keqiang was fired over the heads of both protesters and supporters at Parliament House. Tibetan, East Turkestan and Falun Gong groups protesting China’s alleged human rights abuses assembled on the parliamentary lawn in Canberra, separated by barriers read more →
Chinese public positive about me: Dalai Lama
The Tribune, 22 March 2017 KANGRA, March 21 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today said that unfortunately the Chinese hardliners consider him a trouble maker but the general Chinese public is very positive about him. He was responding speaking to media persons on his arrival at Kangra airport this read more →
Millions Adopting Buddhism Proof My Teachings Have Impact In China: Dalai Lama
Press Trust of India, NDTV MATHURA: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today refuted claims that his preaching has not had any impact in China and said its “mass impact” was evident from the fact that 400 million people have adopted Buddhism in that country. “Adopting of Buddhism by 400 read more →
Shashi Tharoor gives it back to China over Dalai Lama, calls its warnings to India ‘irrelevant’
Financial Express, 22 March 2017 Indian National Congress leader and former Diplomat Shashi Tharoor sided with the Dalai Lama and replied to China’s warning to the Indian government for allowing the Tibetan spiritual leader to visit Arunachal Pradesh. Indian National Congress leader and former Diplomat Shashi Tharoor sided with the read more →
Tibetan PM Sangay calls for electoral reforms
The Statesman – 21 March 2017 The Prime Minister of Tibetan government in exile Lobsang Sangay called for electoral reforms and said that the system of one time election should be adopted instead of the existing two phase Tibetan elections for both parliamentarians and the PM. Earlier on Saturday, Sangay read more →
Printing the Ancient Way Keeps Buddhist Texts Alive in Tibet
The New York Times, 21 March 2017 DERGE, China — The dozen or so Tibetan men wearing aprons sat in pairs in low chairs, facing each other. Each pair bent over a thin rectangular wooden block and worked by sunlight streaming into the second-story room open to a courtyard. Their read more →