Tag Archives: Exile Tibetans

  • Immigrants chasing their business dreams 15 June 2012 | Allie Shah This post has no comments yet

    More than one in six small-business owners in the United States is an immigrant, according to a report released Thursday by the New York-based Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Initiative. ...

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

    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. ...

  • Word of mouth: Tibetan dumplings 7 April 2012 This post has no comments yet

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

  • Vijay Kranti Tibetan self immolations: Why isn’t the world listening? 3 April 2012 | Vijay Kranti This post has no comments yet

    Jamphel Yeshi has left the world the question: Have we arrived at a stage where thousands of struggling communities might lose faith in the tools of democracy and non-violence to resolve conflict? ...

  • Hissay P Bhutia Burning soul – A struggle for freedom 31 March 2012 | Hissay P Bhutia This post has no comments yet

    Let us not ignore the fact that Jamphel Yeshi did not burn only himself: what burned is the agony of every Tibetan. ...

  • Tibetan students share ethnic food in Montville 25 February 2012 | Kala Kachmar This post has 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. ...

  • Buddhist Practice in the 21st Century 13 September 2011 | Eydie Dolma This post has no comments yet

    His Eminence Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche is the incarnation of one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of the 20th Century, Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche. ...

  • Bhuchung D Sonam Lobsang Sangay steps in as Tibet’s legitimate leader 11 August 2011 | Bhuchung D Sonam This post has no comments yet

    No matter how hard Beijing imposes its increasingly harsh rule over Tibet, Tibetans inside and outside Tibet put their trust in the leadership of Lobsang Sangay for a future free Tibet. ...

  • Beyond the Dalai Lama: Profiles of four Tibetan Lamas-in-exile 29 July 2011 | Elizabeth Dias This post has no comments yet

    When the Dalai Lama came to Washington this month, he wasn't alone. Accompanying the spiritual leader of Tibetans-in-exile were a group of other leading rinpoches, or reincarnate lamas and teachers. ...

  • Dalai Lama’s new “prime minister” illegitimate: official 28 April 2011 | Zhu Shanshan This post has no comments yet

    The Dalai Lama moved one step closer to "retirement" on Wednesday when his self-declared "government-in-exile" picked a new "leader" -- a Harvard graduate who has never been to Tibet. ...