Holy? ‘Nonsense’

The man who many Buddhists regard as a living god walks into the room and, before sitting down, displays his famous sense of humour. ‘There’s a rumour going around Tibet that I have died,’ he says through an interpreter.

‘What the heck is going on in Tibet?’

In the summer of 1987, Tom Peosay, an NBC cameraman, went on what was intended to be a vacation, trekking in Nepal. Soon enough, it wasn’t. “It was really a fluke,” said Peosay recently.

Hunger Strike for Panchen rights

The North East Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (NERTYC) today organized a 24-hour hunger strike at Court More, Siliguri, to stress the longstanding demand for religious education of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima, at Tashi Lhunpo monastery.