Tag Archives: Tibetan Culture

  • Dhardon Sharling appointed Information Secretary 5 October 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 11 comments

    Dhardon said that her priorities in the office would be good communications strategies to win supporters, and secondly, dialogue with China using the strengths in Tibetan hands. ...

  • Indonesia’s Nalanda 4 October 2016 | Jamyang Dorjee This post has no comments yet

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

  • John Whalen-Bridge speaks on his book “Tibet on Fire” 30 September 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

    What can you do, how can you make the message, defeat the Chinese money-power-cultural-censorship? Write about these things, make movies, make music, with the highest quality, so it endures. ...

  • Ugyen Gyalpo Birds of the same feather don’t always flock together: A tale of two Tibetans 28 September 2016 | Ugyen Gyalpo This post has one comment

    I wish that the tale of these two Tibetans could have the best part of their differences thawed and ironed, and birds of the same feather once again feel like belonging to the same family. ...

  • Nawang Gyalwa’s happy new life in the Netherlands | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

    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. ...

  • Miss Tibet participates in Miss Global Pageant 24 September 2016 | Tibet Sun onlinenews This post has 2 comments

    Miss Tibet 2016 Tenzing Sangnyi is in the Philippines to participate in the Miss Global Pageant. She is among 39 contestants from around the world vying for the crown. ...

  • China pushes Tibetan tourism while critics fear impact 19 September 2016 This post has no comments yet

    China has unveiled a sparkling new hotel as part of its drive to get tens of millions more tourists to visit Tibet, even as critics say the push is slowly eroding the local culture. ...

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

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

  • Ugyen Gyalpo “Identity crisis” — Is that for real? | Ugyen Gyalpo This post has one comment

    I can't relate my story of Tibetan identity to yours emphatically, and therefore I have opened this door for debate. ...

  • Preparations for Kalachakra in January going on well: CTA 25 August 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has one comment

    The preparations for the 34th Kalachakra initiation, to be given by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya in January, are going on well, according to the organising committee of the mega religious event. ...