Kalon Tripa Misquoted in PTI Story

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration, has been misquoted in a wire service story filed by the Press Trust of India from Panipat on 28 December 2003.

Kalon Tripa Inaugurates Training Camp

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the exile Tibetan administration yesterday inaugurated a rural health proggramme called “Arogya Sewa” in Gadh Chiruli, a village near Nagpur, Maharasthra.

Karaoke and karma

We were close to the sacred city of Lhasa when finally I saw it: the legendary Potala with its golden domes and white and deep-red palaces. Here, at last, was the holy of holies; the fabled Shangri-la that was for so long off-limits to travellers from the West.