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.
Read moreTenzin 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.
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Indian police have been framing China by accusing that Chinese spies were out to assassinate Tibetan spiritual guru the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, according to a report carried by the Chinese state media on Monday.
Quoting government statements, the state media report claimed that the allegations levelled by the Dalai Lama that China was preparing to assassinate him were a stunt to attract international attention.
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Pratibha Chauhan/Tribune News Service Shimla, December, 30: The state police have sought additional funds and manpower to beef up security
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreOver 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.
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His Eminence Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, the head of Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, has left the world on December 23, 2015 in Bodhgaya, where Buddha attained enlightenment over 2550 years ago.
Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche (born 1926) was a Tibetan lama and the Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism since 2012. He received the highest Dzogchen teachings from Polu Khenpo Dorje, a direct disciple of Khenpo Ngakchung
NEW DELHI: The government has decided to continue granting Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama exemption from frisking at airports across the country, even as it has removed Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra from the list of people accorded this privilege.
Read moreTibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Saturday described India-Tibet as master and disciple. He spoke at the inauguration of a prayer hall at the Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement camp.
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A video, “Funeral #1” follows Ani Palden Choetso, a Buddhist nun and her trail of self-immolation on a street corner in Tawu town in eastern Tibet.
The eight-minute footage, smuggled out of Tibet, shows Choetso standing rock still, engulfed in flames, before collapsing. Later, a crowd gathers and prevents security officials from taking her body away.
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