Mobile Phone in Tibetan Language Formally Put in Use

“Very excited!” Purbu Zhaxi, a Tibetan young man living in western China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, said on Thursday when he successfully sent a short message in Tibetan via mobile phone to his close friends far away.

Tibet on It

Tamdin Wangdu was a student at CU in 2000, finishing work on a degree in business administration, when he heard the news that his father had died. But unlike most people caught in such a tragic circumstance, Wangdu couldn’t rush home to comfort his family.

The Long Way Home to Lhasa

Tibet would seem to have little history in common with Israel. Yet much like Jews after the destruction of the Second Temple, today Tibetans face the daunting task of preserving their religious culture and national dreams while facing an indeterminate exile.