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Democracy and Unity: The Pillars of Tibetan Exile Governance

OPINION Prof. Nawang Phuntsog* cautions that the deadlock and the precarious democracy in Dharamsala have the potential to diminish international support for the Tibetan cause and urges bolstering the Tibetan public's commitment to unite rather than divide us to correct...

Restoring Faith in Tibetan Democracy: A Call to Action

Dr Nawang Phuntsog-la* bemoans the fact that the very institutions and representatives we have elected seem to be the instruments of the potential downfall of Tibetan democracy and calls for a people’s movement to help build a strong foundation...

The World’s Largest Tibetan Prayer Wheel…in Vietnam?

Tibetan Buddhism is booming across Vietnam, symbolized by the Guinness Record world's largest Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheel built at the luxury resort of Samten Hills. It is located in Da Lat, famous as a romantic French colonial hill station and...

Track Two Efforts Needed to Reduce China-India Frontier Tensions

Prof. René Wadlow* sees in India’s current chairmanship of the G20 grouping of states an opportunity for Track Two discussions towards the resolution of the border dispute with China which could otherwise only worsen in future as the two...

On meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala

OPINION The meeting itself turned out to be neither exactly as he had imagined, nor completely different from what he had hoped, but Christopher Heise* wishes that everyone with a sincere desire to do so is able to meet His...

The Defamation of the Dalai Lama: An Intercultural Analysis

OPINION Human behaviors often violate each other’s expectations, which is especially true and rampant in an intercultural setting, and the video clip of a Feb 28 public event involving the Dalai Lama and a young Indian boy violated the cultural...

Dalai Lama’s life and work belies controverted video clip allegations

OPINION Ben Byrne*, "not a Dalai Lama sycophant", feels that "the idea that the Dalai Lama would dedicate his whole life to ascending from attachment to the five senses but not quite be able to relinquish a freakish sexual attachment...

Incongruity does not mean abuse: My response to the row over a video featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a young Indian boy

OPINION Dhardon Sharling* argues that the controversy raised over the Dalai Lama’s embrace of a young boy during a recent public event ignores the context of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s often humorous – bordering sometimes on the impish – way...

Politics behind China’s education policy in Tibet

OPINION FEBRUARY 25, 2023 While finding the right balance between maintaining alive a minority culture through education in the minority language and the need for education in the national language is not easy to find as it is, in the case...

No Middle Way with Marxists

OPINION Ideologically, there can be no middle way between Tibetan nationalism and the Communist Party of China’s Marxism, as the latter’s sine qua non is to destroy the former, contends Ben Byrne* (TibetanReview.net, Feb02’23) In 1973 Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai told Canadian...
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India strongly protests China’s regular visa denial to its Arunachali Asian Games athletes, minister cancels participation

(TibetanReview.net, Sep23’23) – India has on Sep 22 lodged a strong protest to China for denying accreditation and entry...
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