Exile

DHARAMSALA, 9 March: Revealing a “propitious prescient” indicated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his recent audience with the Dalai Lama, the President of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) Penpa Tsering has said that the Tibetan spiritual leader’s enduring wish to visit Tibet and China could happen this year.

DHARAMSALA, 7 March: On the occasion of the Chodul Monlam Chenmo also known as The Great Prayer Festival, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a short teaching on the Jataka Tales followed by the Ceremony for Generating Bodhichitta (semkye) today at Tsug-lag-Khang, the main temple here in McLeod Ganj.

DHARAMSALA, 6 March: Hundreds of demonstrators marched in Taiwan declaring “oppression continues, resistance persists” to show their solidarity with Tibetans and other minority groups facing oppression in China ahead of the 64th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising day on Sunday.

DHARAMSALA, 3 March: China has fumed after the Czech Foreign Minister met with representatives of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA), commonly known as the Tibetan government in exile.

DHARAMSALA, 1 March: Tibetan activists protested in the Indian capital and urged the G20 Nations to protect Tibetan Children and raise the issue of China’s rampant sinicization in Tibet on Wednesday ahead of the Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s scheduled visit to India to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers meet.

By: Tenzing Dhamdul, FNVA Research Associate

On 13th February 1913, His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama Thupten Gyatso came out with a proclamation that reaffirmed Tibetan Independence. Therefore, declaring and ushering Tibet into the era of a modern nation-state, the first of its kind in the high Himalayas as its near neighbour which would eventually occupy it illegally was in a civil and factional power struggle after the dethronement and removal of the Qing Dynasty.

DHARAMSALA, 13 Feb: Tibetans and Tibet supporters in Dharamsala marked the 110th anniversary of the declaration of Tibetan independence with a street showcase “Majestic Walk”.

By: VIJAY KRANTI

NEW DELHI, DHARAMSHALA, NEW YORK, CHICAGO – 12 FEB Amid many painful aspects of the spread of Covid-19 in China, one positive outcome is the new comradeship the people of colonized countries like Tibet, Xinjiang (East Turkistan), Southern Mongolia and the right thinking Chinese citizens have come to establish in these painful days. Experts and thought leaders from all of these four groups who shared a common international webinar platform were of the opinion that to fight the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping, they must join hands. 

DHARAMSALA, 8 Feb: UN experts have expressed grave concern over China’s policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system that has affected around a million Tibetan children.

DHARAMSALA, 8 Feb: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed sadness at the extensive loss of life and many injuries caused by the devastating earthquakes that have struck Turkey and Syria.