Tag Archives: Tibetan Culture

  • Kunsang Dolma Equality for Tibetan women lifts the whole community 12 July 2013 | Kunsang Dolma This post has one comment

    Men who consider the woman's point of view before taking actions that affect women's lives will help women, help themselves, and make our community better. ...

  • Contested renovation in Tibet capital complete 2 July 2013 This post has no comments yet

    The controversial 1.5 billion-yuan ($240 million) renovation project around the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, has been completed, Chinese state media said. ...

  • China urged to end forced resettlements in Tibet 27 June 2013 | Terril Yue Jones This post has no comments yet

    A human rights group appealed to China on Thursday to end what it called forced "mass rehousing and relocation" of ethnic Tibetans that it said had uprooted more than two million people. ...

  • Mandala magic returns to Ulladulla 25 June 2013 This post has no comments yet

    A group of Tibetan monks from a monastery in southern India is arriving in Ulladulla, a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, to begin work on a sand mandala. ...

  • Senge Sering Dalai Lama meets interfaith groups 25 May 2013 | Senge Sering This post has no comments yet

    I requested His Holiness the Dalai Lama to pray for the freedom of Gilgit-Baltistan. I was hardly able to look at his face while trying to control my tears. ...

  • Dalai Lama kicks off New Orleans visit 18 May 2013 | Michael Kunzelman This post has no comments yet

    The Dalai Lama brought his message of peace and compassion Friday to New Orleans, a city plagued by persistent street violence. ...

  • Meet Techung, the man who opens for the Dalai Lama | Li Robbins This post has no comments yet

    Tibetan singer and multi-instrumentalist Techung has opened for the Dalai Lama before in Japan, Costa Rica and the US, and will open again on 18 May for a speech the Tibetan leader will make in New Orleans. ...

  • Has Hollywood sold out on Tibet? 17 May 2013 | Benjamin Carlson This post has no comments yet

    The absurd has become real: DreamWorks Animation will team up with the China Film Group, a state-owned company, to make “The Tibet Code.” ...

  • China is transforming Tibet’s holiest area into a tourist district 11 May 2013 | Michael Kelley This post has no comments yet

    China is transforming the ancient part of Tibet's capital into a tourist district, turning the area near the Jokhang Temple, the most sacred and important temple in Tibet, into a 150,000-square-metre shopping centre. ...

  • Forgotten victims of Tibet 29 April 2013 | Rani Singh This post has no comments yet

    High in the Himalayan mountains in Nepal, five miles from the Tibetan border at 7,000ft, 88-year-old Pasang Lama sits outside a ramshackle hut. ...