Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet
Touted as a film about the life of Gendun Choephel, the movie is less a complete biography than an analysis of the monk’s conflict with the norms of Tibetan Buddhism and society.
Global meet on science and spirituality
An international conference on science and spirituality will be held here Feb 5-7 to explore the relationship between the two knowledge traditions.
Illiteracy and education levels worsen in the TAR despite development drive
The most recent statistics available for the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) reveal that the proportion of the local population that cannot read or write increased by more than 10 percent, to 54.9 percent in 2003, from 43.8 percent in 2002.