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DHARAMSHALA December 4: Photos depicting China’s brutality in Tibet and the Chinese security official’s high-handed and vulgar display of power over Tibetan monks and commoners have been leaked out of Tibet. A Chinese website based in US – boxun.com, on Friday released eight photographs of Tibetans with their hands tied at their backs, being paraded [...]

DHARAMSHALA: Receiving Dayawati Modi Award for Art, Culture and Education for his contribution towards universal peace, tolerance and social justice in New Delhi yesterday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said women should take more active role towards building the world more peaceful and compassionate. His Holiness the Dalai Lama receiving the Dayawati Modi Award [...]

DHARAMSHALA: In a letter of condolence sent to the Central Tibetan Administration, the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism has expressed sadness and solidarity with the Tibetans on the recent cases of self-immolations in Tibet. “Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism is genuinely saddened by the recent cases of tragic self-immolations in Tibet and would like to [...]

DHARAMSHALA: A former monk from the Karma monastery has set himself on fire in Chamdo in eastern Tibet on 1 December and his condition is unknown, reports coming out of Tibet say. Tenzin Phuntsog, who is in his 40s, set himself on fire in Chamdo. He was taken away by the police and his whereabouts [...]

On 29th November 1956, on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha’s Parinirvana, I had the opportunity to meet Indian leaders and Buddhist representatives from many countries here in New Delhi. At that time I gave a detailed account of the historical development of Buddhism in Tibet and the unique Indo-Tibetan relationship. Dalailama [...]