Tag Archives: Tibetan History

• Pa ra sho — distraction loses Tibet 18 September 2020 | Laden Tshering Samdup This post has no comments yet

  We are in the period when the old order is dying and a new world is crystallizing, and this is the time to make all-out efforts to ensure the existence of free Tibet in the new world order. ...

• A fine line – An Irishman’s Diary on Sir Henry McMahon, China and India 29 August 2020 | Ronan McGreevy This post has no comments yet

  Henry McMahon convened a conference at Simla, the summer capital of British India, in 1914 with a view to determining once and for all India’s northern frontiers. Three countries were involved: British India, China, and Tibet. ...

• Tibet will be free one day 16 August 2020 | Kulveer Singh This post has 5 comments

  Every human being on this planet deserves equal treatment, freedom, and fundamental rights. Tibetans sleep every night with the hope of returning to their homeland one day, hoping for their freedom, and for meeting their parted families. ...

• The Dalai Lama Institution is a Year Older! 7 July 2020 | Lobsang Nyandak This post has 12 comments

  It is the time for peace-loving people in the world to explicitly support and recognize the future potential of the Dalai Lama institution in contributing peace in the world, and saving a nation and people. ...

• Obituary: Pioneer of orphanages in Tibet dies from COVID-19 in Switzerland 10 May 2020 | Morris Tennyson This post has no comments yet

  Tendol Gyalzur, orphaned when fleeing with her family after the 1959 uprising in Tibet, who later went back to Tibet to establish the first orphanages for abandoned children, has died this week of COVID-19 in Switzerland. ...

• The man who lived in all our worlds 5 May 2020 | Tseten Wangchuk This post has one comment

  Kasho Jamyang Choegyal la -- the man who lived fully in all these different worlds of contemporary Tibet -- found joy in each of them while also enduring the worst. I can’t think of anyone quite like him. ...

• Obituary: Jamyang Choegyal Kashopa in three different worlds 29 March 2020 | Thierry Dodin This post has 4 comments

  Our dear friend Jamyang Choegyal Kashopa was taken from us in the night on Tuesday, becoming the second Tibetan elder to succumb to the Coronavirus. Jamchoe la's destiny had unfolded in three different worlds. ...

• Tibetans call on China to change its hardline policy in Tibet 10 March 2020 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 3 comments

  Despite the coronavirus scare, Tibetans gathered together in McLeod Ganj for the most important annual Tibetan event, marking the Tibetan uprising of 10 March 1959 against the invading Chinese. ...

• Book Review: The Tibetan Suitcase 28 February 2020 | Abhyudai Dhawan This post has no comments yet

  So begins The Tibetan Suitcase, Tsering Khortsa’s first novel, ostensibly a bricolage of these found letters and documents. An Indian edition of the novel, first published in 2015, has just been issued. ...

• Exiled Dalai Lama marks 80 years as Tibet’s spiritual leader 22 February 2020 This post has one comment

  The Dalai Lama on Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of his enthronement as the spiritual leader of Tibet, a position held almost entirely in exile and as a target of constant vilification by the Chinese state. ...