Exile

DHARAMSALA, Jan 19: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will undergo treatment in the US later this month for a prostate problem, his office said on Tuesday.

DHARAMSALA, Jan 17: In a letter to Ms Tsai Ing-wen, President-Elect of Taiwan, His Holiness the Dalai Lama congratulated her on her remarkable victory in the Presidential election.

By Tamiyuki Kihara, The Asahi Shimbun | January 11, 2015

The leader of the Tibetan government in exile has called for Japan’s assistance to help his people achieve autonomy, saying that China’s suppression has worsened under the administration of President Xi Jinping.

Tenzin Pelkyi, The Diplomat | January 6, 2015

The international community needs to address the plight of Tibetan refugees.

Recently, an Al Jazeera article offered a profile of statelessness which featured tales of refugees from around the world. From Tibet to Kazhakstan, Syria to the Dominican Republican, the intimate glimpses of life for the millions of dislocated individuals in countries across the globe highlighted the common obstacles faced by those forced to flee their ancestral lands.

The Dalai Lama, slightly stooped and with a grin across his clean-shaven face, plays with a Hindu guru’s beard in Maharashtra. Next, he holds an emaciated leprosy patient in New Delhi, his hands gently touching the man’s cheeks. Thereafter, he stands tall, his eyebrows arched and his mouth slightly ajar, while addressing a large audience at the main temple in Dharamsala.

Over three hundred Tibetan students from India and Nepal joined a leadership workshop in a local Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, that is the seat of the Tibetan administration in exile.