US urges China to make Panchen Lama’s whereabouts known
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Apr. 23: The US State Department on Friday called upon China to make the 11th Panchen Lama’s whereabouts known ahead of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima’s birthday on April 25. “We respect Tibetans’ right to select, educate and venerate their own leaders like the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama according to their own […]
260 new cases in the past week as cluster cases surface in Tibetan community
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, Apr. 23: As India grapples with the second wave of the deadly virus, the Tibetan community recorded the largest surge of Covid-19 cases in a week of 260 new cases, the Central Tibetan Administration’s task force said Thursday. The emergence of new cluster cases in Deckyiling settlement in Dehradun, Central University […]
Dalai Lama, 100 Nobel laureates urge leaders to “keep fossil fuels in the ground”
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Apr. 23: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and 100 prominent Nobel Prize laureates are signatories of the letter published ahead of the Leaders’ Climate Summit on Thursday, urging powerful countries to “keep fossil fuels in the ground”. “Climate change is threatening hundreds of millions of lives, livelihoods across every continent and […]