Religious oppression forces senior monk to commit suicide
Tibetan Government-in-Exile Tuesday said it received reliable information confirming the suicide of a 70-year old monk of Shag Rongpo monastery in the Nagchu County of the so-called “Tibet Autonomous Region” (TAR)
China Three Gorges flooding set to peak
China says flood waters at the Three Gorges Dam will peak within the next 24 hours, after torrential rain further up the Yangtze river over the weekend
Canada’s first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery opens
Thrangu Monastery, the first traditional-style Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Canada, joins the 20 temples, mosques and churches that line No. 5 Road in Richmond, earning that stretch of pavement its lofty nickname
How would you like to be remembered?
Not just as simple as when you leave a room, a job, or a neighborhood, but when your last days are not decades away, but merely months? That is the question that David
Dalai Lama consecrates Matreiya statue at Disket monastery
His Holiness the Dalai Lama blessed a newly constructed statue of Matreiya Buddha at a ceremony at Ladakh’s oldest and largest Disket Monastery (Dekyi Gonpa in