Contact is taking a holiday!

Contact is taking a break after 25 years of bringing you news of Tibet and Tibetan issues. We are celebrating our 25 years by bringing you the story of Contact and the people who have made it happen, and our archive is still there for you to access at any time, and below you can read the story of Contact, how it came into being and the wonderful reflections of the people who have made it happen over the years.

When and how Contact will re-emerge and evolve will be determined by those who become involved.

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Schoolboy sends fan letter to Dalai Lama – and gets invited to India for a chat

19 April 2015 By Mike Lockley Edgbaston 13-year-old George Morris and dad stunned when Tibetan guru jets them out to meet him George Morris who got to meet the Dalai Lama It’s a story so fantastic, heart-warming and brimful of hope it could have been scripted by Disney. The schoolboy who read more →

China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet

Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By  Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →

China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet

Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By  Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →

China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet

Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By  Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu collaborate on Book of Joy

Deep dialogue’ … Desmond Tutu welcomes the Dalai Lama to the international peace conference in Hiroshima in 2006. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian, 15 April 2015 The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’ Shakespeare had it that “joy’s soul lies read more →

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu collaborate on Book of Joy

Deep dialogue’ … Desmond Tutu welcomes the Dalai Lama to the international peace conference in Hiroshima in 2006. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian, 15 April 2015 The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’ Shakespeare had it that “joy’s soul lies read more →

China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet

By NICOLE PERLROTHAPRIL 10, 2015 A tool researchers call the Great Cannon is said to have redirected traffic intended for the Chinese search engine Baidu. Photo Credit: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Late last month, China began flooding American websites with a barrage of Internet traffic in an apparent effort to take out read more →

China’s Crackdowns in Tibet

Rights groups are pushing for international action on the serial use of lethal force to crush Buddhist dissent. By Kevin Holden April 14, 2015, The Diplomat The United Nations is set to receive evidence that Chinese People’s Armed Police troops have repeatedly opened fire on unarmed Tibetan protesters calling for read more →

An avatar Beijing would love to control

By Jayadeva Ranade, Hindustan Times, 10 April 2015 The Communist Party of China has not been able to undermine the influence of the Dalai Lama among Tibetans. The issues of Tibet and the Dalai Lama have been accorded higher listing among the domestic priorities of the Chinese leadership under President read more →

Every Suffering Has a Meaning

By Ming Xia  –Speech at the Tibetan National Uprising Day in New York and New Jersey– Fifty-six years ago, the Dalai Lama was forced to leave his people and homeland behind, and started his life in exile at age 24. This is suffering. Reaching age 80, His Holiness the Dalai read more →

Let the red flag fly over Tibet monasteries: Communist chief

AFP April 8, 2015, 3:47 pm Let the red flag fly over Tibet monasteries: Communist chief Beijing (AFP) – China’s top official in Tibet vowed on Wednesday to evaluate Buddhist monks and nuns for their “patriotism” and install national flags in monasteries to strengthen ideological control in the region. The read more →

Over 100 monks and nuns expelled, repression continues in Tibet

Friday, 03 April 2015 19:10 Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post International Dharamshala — Emerging sources say Chinese authorities have expelled more than 100 monks and nuns from their monasteries and nunneries in Driru County, eastern Tibet and seven monks severely beaten and held after staging protest. A newly built nunnery has read more →

Symposium honours late professor who pioneered modern Tibetan studies

  (TibetanReview.net, Apr08, 2015) – A symposium was held in New Delhi on Apr 7 in honour of late Professor Dawa Norbu who had pioneered exile Tibetan scholarship in modern academic fields. He was best known initially for his editorship of the Tibetan Review magazine in the 1970s and, later, read more →

China cannot believe its luck over new investment bank

Tom Mitchell in Beijing, Financial Times, 6 April 2015 The Chinese government can scarcely believe its own luck. Heaping Asian insult upon Capitol Hill injury, last week Benjamin Netanyahu committed Israel to join Beijing’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. While there is no love lost between the Israeli prime minister read more →

Tibet party boss says temples must be propaganda centres

World | Fri Apr 3, 2015 8:05am BST BEIJING (Reuters) – Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet must become propaganda centres for the ruling Communist Party, where monks and nuns learn to “revere” science and appreciate the party’s love, the troubled region’s top Chinese appointed official said. Rights groups and exiles say the officially atheist party tramples on Tibetans’ read more →