Five-day Dharamsala world peace fest concludes
Hundreds of monks and Buddhist devouts assembled at the concluding ceremony of a five-day Tibetan annual prayers for world peace in Dharamsala on Friday. The annual prayer at Namgyal monastery was organised by the Tibetan-government-in exile
16 bodies found at Sichuan landslide site
Sixteen bodies of workers who were buried by a landslides on the Sichuan-Tibet highway, one of the highest roads in China, have been found, an official report said. Rescuers said that the bodies of all the victims have been found.
16 bodies found at Sichuan landslide site
Rescuers clear the site of a landslide on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in Linzhi, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Friday, July 11, 2003. Nineteen people were buried in a landslide Wednesday caused by two-week-long rainfalls. Six bodies have so far been found. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Tu Deng)
Tibetan Buddhist Art Exhibit Brings Rare Images
The exhibit is called “The Female Buddha: Women of Enlightenment in Tibetan Mysticism.” Buddhas are those who have reached full spiritual enlightenment, or awakening. And in Tibetan Buddhism, with its roots in the shamanistic and unseen world of gods
Tibetan Buddhist Art Exhibit Brings Rare Images
Detail of image at the Oglethorpe University Museum exhibit.(Photographed Image Copyright (c) 2002 Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation) Collection of Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
ICT Holds First-Ever European Tibetan Youth Leadership Program
The inaugural European Tibetan Youth Leadership Program (TYLP) in Europe, held in Brussels from July 5 to 9, 2003 attracted 13 Tibetans from seven countries. The Program included a visit to the European Parliament during which the participants
ICT Holds First-Ever European Tibetan Youth Leadership Program
Participants in the 2003 Tibetan Youth Leadership Program, Europe, with ICT Europe Executive Director Tsering Jampa, far right
The Five Principles
Born in Sin.” These were the words used by Acharya Kripalani to describe the famous Panchsheel Agreement when it was presented to the Indian Parliament by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in May 1954.
A clear-eyed look at Tibet
Patrick French was a 16-year-old student in England in the early 1980s when the news came that his school, a Catholic seminary, was to receive a special visitor – the Dalai Lama.
A clear-eyed look at Tibet
The Dalai Lama has made a number of “political misjudgements”.