Dalai Lama Drama
Rutgers University will be welcoming his High Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama next semester, and it is fitting that the New Jersey Film Festival will be premiering this week What Remains of Us, a heartbreaking documentary about a Tibetan woman’s quest to spread the Dalai Lama’s message to his native people.
His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje Visits South India
His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa visits South India Tibetan Settlements and monasteries five years after coming into exile. This is his first major interaction with the largest Tibetan Settlements and the visit materialized after planning for two years.
United States Annual Human Rights Report Says China Commits Serious Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
The U.S. State Department said today that China’s human rights record in Tibetan areas of China “remained poor”, but that there had been “positive developments” in terms of a third visit to China by the Dalai Lama’s representatives
Bull’s Eye
Outlining India’s South Asia doctrine, foreign secretary Shyam Saran said: “India would not like to see a SAARC in which some of its members perceive it as a vehicle to countervail India.”
British Tibetan Community Hosts Musical Evening for Tsunami Victims
A group of young British musicians and singers joined an evening of multi-cultural gig, which was organised by the Tibetan Community in Britain as part of its solidarity campaign to aid the victims of Asian Tsunami Disasters on Saturday 26 February 2005.