China asked to lift restrictions on Tibet’s ‘singing nun’ Phuntsog
US-based Human Rights Watch urged China to immediately lift all restrictions on “Singing Nun” Phuntsog Nyidron, who was released after being Tibet’s longest serving female political prisoner.
Dalai Lama Encouraged by Increasing Interest in Religion in China
The Dalai Lama has said that he is encouraged by the increasing interest in religion in China. He was addressing several hundred Taiwanese and ethnic Chinese devotees in Dharamsala on July 28 and 31, 2004 at the conclusion of a ten-day Buddhist teaching to them.
A Tibetan Introduces History of India in American University
Thanks to the initiatives of a Tibetan teacher from Darjeeling, the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Allendale, Michigan, today has a full-fledged program in the history of India.
Rapid development poses new challenges for Tibet
On a high mountain pass in central Tibet, three men, clad in heavy leather aprons and coated in dust from the road, are making a painful pilgrimage, pausing every few steps to prostrate themselves on the stony ground in a show of their enduring devotion to their Buddhist religion.