The Dalai Lama inaugurates Centre for Tibetan Studies in Delhi
His Holiness the Dalai Lama inaugurated the Centre for Tibetan Studies at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India’s largest distant learning education centre in Delhi, today in the afternoon.
Trulshik Rinpoche passes away at 88
Trulshik Rinpoche, one of the His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s teachers and head of the Nyingma school left for his heavenly abode last Friday at the age of 88. Trulshik Rinpoche was born in Lho Talung, Tibet in 1923
Primitive woolly rhino unearthed from Tibet
The discovery of a newly identified species of primitive woolly rhino, dating to 3.6 million years ago on the Tibetan plateau, scientists say, shows that the isolated Himalayan land served as the evolutionary cradle for Ice Age mega plant-eaters.