DHARAMSALA, India — Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter. Yet for one month this spring a group of 91 monastics devoted themselves to the corporeal realm of science.
[June 30, 2009. Source :nytimes.com]
BEIJING (AFP) — Flag carrier Air China will launch the first direct flight between Beijing and the Tibetan capital Lhasa on July 10, according to state media, in a bid to boost tourism to the Himalayan region.
[July 02, 2009 Source: AFP]
The six-member delegation comprises the Labour lawmakers Michael Danby and Melissa Parke, Liberal lawmaker Peter Slipper, Independent Senator Nick Xenophon and Greens Senators Scott Ludlam and Sarah Hanson-Young.
The delegation, due to stay in Dharamshala till July 6, [July 02, 2009 Source :Tibetcity.com]
Tibetans living in exile in Dharamshala celebrated the 24th birthday of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa on Friday.
Born on June 26, 1985 in Kham region of eastern Tibet, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is heir to the Tibetan's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
[June 26, 2009 source :Tibetcity.com]
Dharamshala: This year's six-week Summer Study Program at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala attracted unprecedented attention from the Tibetan parents and students in North America.
[July 02, 2009 source :Tibetcity.com]
KATHMANDU: Once, the name plate outside the walled house invisible from outside proudly said "Gaden Kangsar" – the residence of the Dalai Lama. But when Nepal’s Maoist government began a fresh crackdown on the supporters of the exiled Tibetan leader last year,
[June 28, 2009 Source :timesofindia]
Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), June 29, 2009: His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, today, appealed to his fellow Tibetans not to harm wildlife, at an awareness event organised by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and Care for the Wild International (CWI). [June 29, 2009. Source :Tibetcity.com]
"The Dalai Lama equals non-violence, and without him there would be violence," said Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, a couple of months ago.
In Beijing, Chinese writer Wang Lixiong agreed: "If ... the Dalai Lama does not return to Tibet before he dies, the moment that he dies will see general riots across the Tibetan areas of China." And he is going to die, probably fairly soon.
[June 29, 2009 Source :stuff.co.nz]
Dalai Lama celebrates his 74th birthday on 6 July, and it has been 50 years since Tibetan refugees made India their home. We visited Delhi’s Tibetan neighbourhood to meet one of the earliest residents to have come to Delhi with the Dalai Lama [July 02, 2009 Source :livemint.com]
Two students of Kanlho Tibetan Middle School were expelled from their school on 19 June 2009 for their involvement in peaceful protest on 24 April 2009 www.tchrd.org/press/2009/pr20090424a.htm according to confirm information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). [July, 02 2009 Source :TCHRD]
Kathmandu, July 1 (IANS) Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to Kathmandu to seek support from the new government of Nepal to quell them.
[July 02, 2009 Source :thaindian.com]
Gyalyum Chemo Memorial gold cup 2009 won by Mundgod Potala FC, Playing against TSAM FC in final, Mundgod scored 4 to 3 (TSAM) and lifted the cup here in Dharamsala, India, 9 June, 2009. In normal 90 minutes, both teams scored 3 each and game streched into extra time, With 1 goal from Mundgod in extra time has managed their team to lift the cup.Photo/Tibetcity.com
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