Dalai Lama stops in Tucson during national tour

Vivid memories of the Vietnam War haunted Tucsonan Dick Vandemark for more than a quarter-century. Then, in 1993, he went on a lark to see a little Tibetan man in a robe speak in Tucson and he began to get a handle on the post-traumatic stress disorder

Prepping for the Dalai Lama

Whether you can feel it or not, Tucson is one of the spiritual centers of the world this week. For some time, there have been scattered signs. The Loft showed five films about Tibet last week;

Our Tibetan Democracy

As I write this, the Tibetan community in exile is preparing for yet another cycle of legislative elections (for the Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies), and for the post of the Kalon Tripa