Tibetan Democracy Day observed in Nepal
Tibetans in Nepal observed the 47th Tibetan Democracy Day at Samtenling Monastery in Boudha, Kathmandu today with an official function attended by Tibetan officials, Parliamentarians
Prayer Flags Aflutter In A Chill Wind
The battle over choosing the next Dalai Lama has begun. One that threatens to strip Tibetan Buddhism of perhaps its most thrilling and mysterious of practices—reincarnation.
Tibetan Government Repudiates Atheist China’s Measures for Reincarnation of ‘Living Buddhas’
Joint Statement to Repudiate the so-called Order no. 5 of China’s State Administration of Religious Affairs on Management Measures for the Reincarnation of ‘Living Buddhas’ in Tibetan Buddhism
China’s India PR guy
In the early days of the Russian Revolution, starry-eyed Western sympathisers made a beeline for Moscow to report on the glories of the ‘Soviet paradise’. Lenin memorably referred to them as
TCHRD deplores China’s new religious measures on reincarnation
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) deplores the government of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) new religious regulatory measures on the selection of reincarnates that come into force from today.