Phuntsok Nyidron to Arrive in Switzerland
Phuntsok Nyidron plans to arrive tomorrow morning at Zurich Airport and is expected to seek political asylum in Switzerland, according to informed sources in Geneva and Washington D.C.
The Dalai Lama’s Many Auras, at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles
IN a recent portrait of the Dalai Lama, all we see of him is a foot in a blue flip-flop and a flicker of burgundy robe. To view this painting as a prayer for peace might seem a stretch.
Artists Consider the Dalai Lama at the Fowler
The UCLA Fowler Museum premieres the traveling exhibition ‘The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama’ through September 10. Eighty-eight contemporary artists from twenty-five countries have contributed artworks for
China arms sales ‘fuel conflicts’
The human rights organisation Amnesty International has accused China of being one of the world’s most secretive and irresponsible arms exporters.