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.
His Holiness to Teach full text of Bodhicharyavatara
His Holiness the Dalai Lama began teaching the full text of Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara (Bodhisattva’s way of life) at the request of South Korea’s Jonnam Yeosucity Dukchungdong Sukchen Temple.
Former Tibetan political prisoner to speak in Tucson
A Tibetan monk who endured three decades of imprisonment and torture for resisting Chinese rule will be in Tucson early next month as a guest of Amnesty International.
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.