Tibetan store opens for the holidays
For a few brief months, local shoppers will have the opportunity to purchase a variety of handicrafts from Tibet and India, and their purchases will directly benefit an orphanage
Car-ownership boom means traffic jams in once-tranquil Tibet; underground parking lot open
A boom in car ownership has brought traffic jams to Tibet’s once-tranquil capital and prompted it to open its first underground parking lot, state media reported Wednesday.
First Mongolian and Russian Buddhists festival kick starts in Dharamsala
A five-day joint festival of Buddhists from Mongolia and Russian Republics of Kalmykia, Tuva and Buryatia kick started yesterday morning with an exotic art exhibition
Protesting China’s Olympic Truce Resolution
Members of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of NY and NJ, Students for a Free Tibet and the U.S. Tibet Committee last week protested before the United Nations’ headquarter against China’s introduction of Olympic Truce Resolution. Around 15 protesters chanted slogans, distributed flyers, and displayed banners reading “One World, One Dream: Free Tibet” and “Boycott Beijing 2008 Olympics” on New York’s crowded First Avenue on October 31 2007.
Lecture focuses on Buddhism, Tibet
Robert Thurman, the president of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, presented a lecture on the importance of Tibet in Buddhist studies
Southwestern Professor forms Nonprofit Organization to keep Tibetan language alive
During these visits, she also learned many Tibetans were becoming less fluent in their own language because they tended to speak more Chinese in day-to-day life.
China says media free to cover Olympics
The International Olympic Committee must press China to allow complete freedom for foreign media ahead of next year’s Beijing Summer Olympic Games, a human right’s group said yesterday.
China praises India for Dalai censure
China on Tuesday praised the UPA government for asking its ministers to stay away from a recent function to felicitate Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, whom it accused of trying to “split China”.