Maui tower being built for visit by Dalai Lama
In a modest residential neighborhood in the former sugar plantation town of Paia, workers are building a sacred tower in preparation for the two-day visit of Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso.
Civil Servants Bid Farewell to Kashag
Establishing a new tradition, the senior civil servants, above the rank of Joint Secretary of the Central Tibetan Administration, will tomorrow host a gala farewell dinner for the incumbent Kashag, with its term expiring
Chinese go further, faster and higher with media crackdowns two years before Beijing Olympics
When the Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing two years from today, on 8 August 2008, neither the Beijing Organising Committee (BOCOG) nor the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be in a position to
Tibet train leads to Nathu-La buzz
As the 30-hour-long train ride from Lanzhou in the heart of western China, traversing almost 2,000 km across the Gobi Desert and then the plateau known as the Roof of the World, finally rolled into the Tibetan capital’s
The Dalai Lama’s Master Plan
In a speech in Washington, D.C. on April 18, 1991, His Holiness the Dalai Lama referred to the need of a “master plan for a better world.” He said, “We need to think very deeply and hold consultations to come up with some