Kalon Tripa to Visit Varanasi, Delhi

Kalon Tripa Samdhong Rinpoche who is in Chauntra for the inaugural function of the Dzongsar Shedra monastery will leave for Varanasi later today.

Hunger strike of RTYC Chandigarh enters day seven

The Hunger Strikers of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) led by president Tenzin Norsang entered into its seventh day. The students demand the release of all political prisoners including Panchen Lama and Tulku Tenzin Delek whose suspended death sentence expires on 2nd December, 2004.

Dalai Lama inaugurates Tibetan institute

The Dzongsar Chokyi Lodro College of Dialectics, a distinguished institution for Tibetan-Budhist higher education, was inaugurated today at Tibetan colony of Chauntra, about 10 km from here.

Tibetans at Berkeley HS Search for Identity

Sitting on a bench at Berkeley High School, Tenzin Yougyal looks like any other 17-year-old. But he lives in two worlds. Yougyal, a Tibetan American, was born in northern India in Dharamsala, headquarters of the exiled Tibetan government.

American missionary ‘conquers’ eastern Tibet

Mention the name Dr Albert Shelton and most Americans would be hard pressed to place him. Yet his name should rank alongside those of the world’s great explorers and missionaries, such as Dr David Livingstone of Africa