Category Archives: Features

• Retired doctor’s family to meet Dalai Lama 12 June 2012 no comments

  A foot-long bone whistle, among other souvenirs from the roof of the world gathered during the British Expedition to Tibet of 1904, is to be finally returned home when Tibet's Dalai Lama visits Scotland. ...

• The union between Adam Yauch and Dechen Wangdu: a look back 5 May 2012 no comments

  Dechen Wangdu, an American-born activist, has devoted her life to the cause of Tibetan liberation from China. When she met Yauch, the two joined forces to fight against injustice together. ...

• Lhamo Tso brings fight for husband’s freedom to Auburn 8 April 2012 | Krissi Khokhobashvili no comments

  Lhamo Tso has not seen, or even spoken to, her husband in five years. She has spent years campaigning for the release of Dhondup Wangchen. ...

• Word of mouth: Tibetan dumplings 7 April 2012 no comments

  It was in a monastery in Eastern Tibet as a teenager that Phuntsok Gyatso learned to make neatly pleated steamed dumplings. ...

• An Irishman’s Diary 17 March 2012 | Michael Parsons no comments

  Who knew that the "Abominable Snowman" – one of the most enduring myths of the last century – had an Offaly connection? ...

• Tibetan students share ethnic food in Montville 25 February 2012 | Kala Kachmar one comment

  Tibetan students at Montville, Connecticut, prepared momos, a Tibetan meal, that was served at lunch Thursday in honour of Losar, the Tibetan new year. ...

• Lhasa: The land of Shangri-la 26 February 2011 | Jaideep Mukerji and Veeresh Malik no comments

  Jaideep Mukerji embarks on a journey to Lhasa, a place steeped in history, that has withstood the ravages of time and cultural vandalism ...

• Tibetan UNI students to meet Dalai Lama 17 May 2010 | Mary Stegmeir no comments

  "The Dalai Lama and UNI, they've taught us how to become not just better Tibetans, but better humans," University of Northern Iowa graduate Dolma Tsering said. ...

• The long march backwards: Chinese capitalism 2 October 2008 no comments

  Most people, particularly those living outside China, assume that the country's phenomenal growth and increasing global heft are based on a steady, if not always smooth, transition to capitalism. ...