Tag Archives: Tibetan Culture

• Dalai Lama alone can decide his succession: Exile Tibetans 5 October 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has one comment

  Exile Tibetans unanimously declared that any decisions on succession of the Dalai Lama will only be the prerogative of himself and his office, and opposed any other party meddling. ...

• Exile Tibetans hold three-day brainstorming meeting for their future 3 October 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 2 comments

  The issue of the Dalai Lama's succession tops China's agenda today. Although an atheist government, it has been trying to meddle in the reincarnation process of the next Dalai Lama. ...

• Book on daily life practice of Tibetan Buddhism released 28 September 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  A new book A Happy Family by Tulku Sonam Gawa, dealing with daily life practice of Tibetan Buddhism, was released today by Geshe Lhakdor of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives ...

• Winners of 9th edition of Tibetan Music Awards announced 9 September 2019 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has 2 comments

  Lifetime Achievement Award for Lobsang Samten from McLeod Ganj, Special Recognition for Michelle Weik from Connecticut, and a dozen other awards announced for the Tibetan Music Awards 2019. ...

• Tibetans ordered to replace Dalai Lama portraits with Chinese party leaders 29 June 2019 | Jenny Che This post has one comment

  Some families in Tibet are being forced to replace portraits of the Dalai Lama with those of President Xi Jinping of China in order to continue receiving government aid. ...

• Old Demon, New Deities launched in Kathmandu 28 June 2019 | Tibet Sun Contributor This post has no comments yet

  Old Demon, New Deities: Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet, first-ever anthology of Tibetan writers, was launched in Nepal yesterday in an evening of inspiring cultural programmes. ...

• Mundgod does it again, lifts GCM cup 2019 10 June 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has one comment

  The Mundgod football team from South India won the Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup, beating Clement Town football team in the penalty shootout. ...

• Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts celebrate 60-year milestone 8 May 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 2 comments

  The Institute trains young people in dance, music, and performing arts in order to preserve and promote traditional Tibetan performing arts and culture. ...

• CTA’s Education Department gets maximum budget of 559 million rupees 31 March 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 6 comments

  Low birth rate, emigration of Tibetans to the West, and much lower numbers of new arrivals from Tibet are said to be the reasons for shrinking number of Tibetan children in India and Nepal. ...

• One Tibetan’s greener grass in Bangkok 5 March 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 2 comments

  For Tibetan restaurateur Yangkyi la the grass is greener in Bangkok in the East, while many other Tibetans rather go West to US, Canada, or Europe, where they hope to find a better future. ...