TOKYO: On the final day of Kalon Tripa’s visit to Japan yesterday, sixty Japanese Parliamentarians from five political parties of Japan expressing their grave concern over tragic self-immolations of Tibetans in Tibet, made an unanimous appeal to the Chinese government…
April 9, 2012 3:04 pm Tenpa Dargay, a monk of Kirti monastery, who set himself on fire protesting the Chinese government’s repression in Tibet died on 7 April. Tenpa Dargay and Chemi Palden set themselves on fire on 30 March…
April 3, 2012 6:21 pm DHARAMSHALA: A group of 12 Nobel Peace Laureates — including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, and President Jose Ramos Horta — today sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao urging him to “respect…
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader whose long-standing engagement with multiple dimensions of science and with people far beyond his own religious traditions has made him an incomparable global voice for universal ethics, nonviolence, and harmony…
Chimey Palden/file photo DHARAMSHALA: Reports coming out of Tibet say two more Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest against the Chinese government’s repressive policies in Tibet. The two Tibetans – Tenpa Dargey, 22, and Chimey Palden, 21, monks…