Category Archives: Features

• Land of Happiness: Vision of a fearless Tibetan mother 27 November 2016 | Tenzin Namdul 6 comments

  Despite all hardships, one can conceive and give birth to a vision of giving life to the “Land of Happiness.” We can be mere spectators, or active Buddhists -- it is up to us! ...

• Tibetan Foundation helps rebuild Yushu after earthquake 21 November 2016 | Jamyang Dhondup no comments

  The Tibet Foundation believes that even though there are national and political boundaries, there is no boundary to love and compassion. ...

• Kazi Dawa Samdup, and Tibet in the Twilight Zone 14 November 2016 | Laden Tshering Samdup one comment

  Kazi Dawa Samdup and Dr Walter Evans-Wentz collaborated on groundbreaking literary works which played an important part in bringing Tibetan Buddhism and people to the West. ...

• Saint and freedom fighter of Sri Lanka 24 October 2016 | Laden Tshering Samdup 2 comments

  A Tibetan became a Theravada monk, was a much-adulated freedom fighter of Sri Lanka, officially declared a National Hero, and given a state funeral upon his death. ...

• Hollywood’s whitewash and era of nostalgia 14 October 2016 | Chewang Ngokhang one comment

  Certainly, there is a lot of whitewashing in the production of Hollywood films and television series, due to a dearth of good non-white actors in the film industry. ...

• Unique Tibetan gene and its evolution 7 October 2016 | Tenzin Tsedup no comments

  The adaptation of Tibetans is a wonderful discovery to understand how evolution can occur rapidly in response to geographic and environmental constraints. ...

• Indonesia’s Nalanda 4 October 2016 | Jamyang Dorjee no comments

  The Muara Jambi monastery complex and Borobudur monuments in Indonesia are important to Tibetan Buddhism and the Nalanda tradition of Buddhism. ...

• Nawang Gyalwa’s happy new life in the Netherlands 28 September 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal no comments

  Nawang Gyalwa was born in Sog Dzong in eastern Tibet, escaped to India in 1996, and lived there for a few years before moving to the Netherlands. ...

• Yuthok’s rejoinder to Gyalo Thondup’s The Noodle Maker 17 September 2016 | Jigmie Dorji Yuthok 8 comments

  I have only discussed a small portion of The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong, addressing inaccuracies and falsehoods about which I have some personal knowledge. ...

• Kalimpong: Tibetan times in days gone by 2 September 2016 | Laden Tshering Samdup 2 comments

  Kalimpong is well-known and perhaps dear to many Tibetans. It was a major trading outpost to Tibet. ...