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18 May 2013
13 May 2013
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Must We love the Party…By Bhuchung D Sonam
On 8 May, among many issues the Tibetan prime minister discussed at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, Dr Lobsang Sangay said: ‘We don't challenge, or ask for, an overthrow of the Communist Party. We don't question or challenge the present structure of the ruling party.’ The ruling party being the Communist Party of China (CCP).
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09 May 2013
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Did China Cover Up A Mining Disaster?
Nearly three weeks (at the time of this article first published) after the death of 83 workers in a landslide near a village in Tibet, which official Chinese media characterized as a natural disaster, suspicion is rising that it resulted from improper mining activity.
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07 May 2013
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Congress needs to hold China to account on Tibet by Sikyong Lobsang Sangay
On April 24, 2013, two youths, Lobsang Dawa, 20, and Kunchok Woser, 23, lit themselves on fire near their monastery in eastern Tibet. The toll of Tibetans who have chosen to self-immolate has now reached 117, one of the highest in recent world history. The prime cause of this tragedy is the profound resentment of and resistance to China’s continued occupation and repression in Tibet.
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THE STRANGE CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT KHAMPAS By Jamyang Norbu
 When Andrug Gompo Tashi set up the Chushigangdruk (Four Rivers Six Ranges) in Lhoka in the summer of ‘58, and commenced resistance operations, Chinese garrisons and outpost in those areas were taken by surprise. Fearing that the local population might join or support Chushigangdruk,
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29 April 2013
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Tibet and the Himalayas: The Gangtok Conference By Thubten Samphel
 Ancient pilgrims and scholars who made the journey to Buddhist India summed up the fruit of their intense collective spiritual endeavour with these words: the waters of the Ganges have made the desert sands of Central Asia bloom. This saying disregards geography.
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27 April 2013
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To Be or Not Be: Should Tibetans in India Assert Indian Citizenship?
 During Hu Jintao’s visit to Delhi in March 2012, about 200 Tibetans found themselves summarily detained for peacefully expressing their views. This includes well-known Tibetan activist Tenzin Tsundue, who was arrested as he was participating in a seminar, supposedly because of his past
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24 April 2013
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“TIBET’S NEXT INCARNATION?” By Jamyang Norbu
 For some months, now large-scale protests and violent street battles have been raging throughout Cairo and other major cities of Egypt. Thousands of Egyptian liberals and secularists have come out on the streets to protest what they called President Mohamed Morsi’s “power-grab”, after he issued a declaration awarding himself new powers, which he claimed were “temporary” until a new constitution was put in place. Morsi’s opposition will have none of it and claim that he wants to make himself “the new Pharaoh”.
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28 March 2013
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Will the Tibetan Parliament’s March 10 Statement Chill Free Speech?
In its March 10 statement this year, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile made a far-reaching assertion. The Parliament warned the Tibetan people not to “resort to speaking, writing articles, and propagating information through the various communication channels without any sense of responsibility.”
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Reasons He Came to Die in Exile
In a little restaurant near Kathmandu, a young Tibetan man approached a Western woman and told her that Tibet is a beautiful country and that he loved his country very much. What sounded like a casual conversation turned out to be a solemn statement.
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26 March 2013
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A MUSICAL CONFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM AND SUFIZM
On the just past warming up Saturday of April, the Diwan-i-Aam of Delhi's Taj Mahal hotel was witness to a unique event which is bound to go down in the spiritual history of Delhi as one of the most outstanding days of confluence of hearts, souls, music and spirituality.
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19 March 2013
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PROSECUTE HU JIN TAO by Khedroob Thondup
Since annexation in 1959 every Chinese leader had suppressive policies in Tibet. In recent times Hu Jintao has been the worst. Beijing's policy has been to hold on to Tibet by any possible way whether its severe repression, shootings, imprisonment with absolutely disregard of the Tibetan people's basic rights and in the last fifty five years
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14 March 2013
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Parading the Red Flag and its Dangers
 At a press conference in Dharamsala, India, on 17 February 2013, Lingtsa Tseten Dorjee said that he would carry the flag of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and start his second peaceful walk on 10 March. ‘I will finish what I have started.
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07 March 2013
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THE LION FROM CHAMDO
 Dipping mercury combined with occasional rain added a layer of physical discomfort to the numbness triggered by Pala’s abrupt death on Christmas Day. Amala, disconcertingly calm and collected, worried about the forecast for December 28th. Her worries proved unfounded as Clement Town
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02 March 2013
24 February 2013
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Self-Immolations and Chinese Intellectuals By Ming Xia
Since February 2009, 104 Tibetans have set themselves on fire. It is a shocking event in the history of human civilisation. China is a multi-ethnic country. The members of Han nationality, which accounts for 92% of the country’s population, has the obligation to know the truth and hear the aspirations of the Tibetan people. They should also strive to respond to and help immediately put an end to the self-immolations.
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22 February 2013
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Tibet’s tragedy: 104 self-immolations and we don’t care By Ajaz Ashraf
It is conceivable a Tibetan could in the near future again set his or her body on fire. It is also possible to imagine what the response to such an act would be – frenzied, doleful coverage of the incident by the media, a crescendo of criticism against Beijing’s suppression of a people,
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07 February 2013
06 February 2013
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HOW TIBETANS ARE LOSING THEIR FOCUS AND UNITY
As ongoing debate on 'Rangzen - vs- Autonomy' issue is leading to an unfortunate division among the Tibetan exile community and fault lines are being dragged to the international supporters' community -- one wonders why a community and its leaders, whose Supreme leader has the wisdom of giving up all his political powers to his people, cannot create autonomous space for its own members to take up and deliberate the Tibetan cause from different angles and perspectives?
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01 February 2013
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My nephew and the Self-Immolation
I was sleeping in on Saturday morning when my cell phone rang several times. I picked it up without looking at the number. Over the phone I heard crying and the sounds of protest and the local dialect of my town Amchok: "Boys, don't be sad, be strong, walk this way, walk forward. Om mani padme hum, Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso."
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Sacred documents in the pious Tibetan world are generally treated with great reverence – placed on the head, wrapped in silk, fumigated with incense smoke – but perhaps not read or discussed as much as they should be. To save the Great Thirteenth’s Declaration of Independence
