Tag Archives: Tibet

  • Ugyen Gyalpo Reflection on the decade gone; thoughts for the new one 1 January 2020 | Ugyen Gyalpo This post has 9 comments

    “If you think you live in a free country, ask if your politicians feel free to meet the Dalai Lama. If the answer is no, then you are part of the Chinese empire — you just haven’t realised it yet.” ...

  • China says US defence act ‘blatantly interfered’ in its affairs 21 December 2019 This post has one comment

    Beijing Saturday slammed a new US defence act, which includes measures to strengthen Washington's ties with Taiwan and support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protestors, saying it "blatantly interfered" in China's internal affairs. ...

  • Nepal needs to change its policy towards Tibetans: Gopal Krishna Siwakoti 13 December 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

    Interview with Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, President of the International Institute for Human Rights, Environment, and Development, in Kathmandu, who has been working for the rights of all refugees, including Tibetans. ...

  • Tibetan dies in self-immolation protest in Amdo Ngawa 28 November 2019 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has one comment

    42 of 150 self-immolation protests in Tibet since 2009 have occurred in Ngawa. The protestors all called for China to allow the Dalai Lama back to Tibet, and for freedom in Tibet; some that Tibet regain its independence. ...

  • NS Venkataraman Pen warriors can liberate Tibet from China’s vice-like grip | NS Venkataraman This post has no comments yet

    Pen warriors launching an opinion campaign on Tibet's cause will truly be acting in the Buddhist tradition and way of life, in a peaceful, proactive manner. ...

  • Can McMahon Line dispute be resolved? 19 November 2019 | Pradip Phanjoubam This post has no comments yet

    More than a century after the McMahon Line was drawn at the tripartite Simla Convention of 1913-1914 between British India, Tibet and China, uncertainty over the Indo-China boundary in the Northeast remains a festering sore. ...

  • US wants UN to take up Dalai Lama succession: envoy 10 November 2019 | Shaun Tandon This post has 2 comments

    The US wants the UN to take up the Dalai Lama's succession in an intensifying bid to stop China from trying to handpick his successor, an envoy said after meeting the Tibetan leader. ...

  • Sheama-tam – Tibetan hip-hop music in resistance | N Dhargyal This post has no comments yet

    Hip-hop music has become a channel for Tibetan youth to communicate among themselves between the two worlds we are living in, and a resistance in its own way against the Chinese government. ...

  • China’s Tibet enjoys development, religious freedom: Chinese ambassador to India 7 November 2019 This post has one comment

    Tibet has been part of China since ancient times and it enjoys development and religious freedom, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong wrote in an article published in the Hindustan Times ...

  • Top US diplomat meets with the Dalai Lama 29 October 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

    US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Samuel Brownback, called on Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at his residence in McLeod Ganj in northern India. ...