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New bill in US Congress – A new beginning for Tibet

OPINION Vijay Kranti* expresses delight at the fact that the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate has cleared the way for a new US law which will recognize Tibet as an ‘Occupied Country’, CHOLKA-SUM as the ‘Real Tibet’, and...

We must be free or die

OPINION Phuntsog Wangyal* argues that loyalty to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the desire for freedom are not incompatible, that clamouring for Tibet's independence is not only a matter of political freedom in consonance with our democratic system but...

Heroism lies not in inflicting pain but in enduring it*

OPINION John Billington** feels sure that Tibet will endure and survive despite the immense odds it faces against its marauding conqueror China, as Edwin Muir’s poem below tells us, because it embodies values the human civilization needs, as evolutionary biologist...

Edible Flowers: A series of undying love for the mundane

Tibetan artist Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee has told Choekyi Lhamo* that his storytelling through art layers complex issues with simple themes I met Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee on a cold winter morning prior to his second solo exhibition in the foothills of...

Beware of Thermo Fisher’s Net 

OPINION Palden Sonam* argues that the American company Thermo Fisher Scientific's recent statement that it had stopped the sale of its DNA-based human identification technology in Tibet Autonomous Region, though a symbolic victory to the campaigners, will have little effect...

Chungpo Tsering: Artist, Activist, Storyteller, Dreamer

OBITUARY – Tenzin Dorjee, New York Tenzin Dorjee* pays tribute to a friend who was born in Tibet under Chinese occupation rule, raised in India as an orphan, driven out of Nepal as an activist, rediscovered himself as an artist in...

TIBETAN CULTURE

OPINION John Billington* pays tribute to the distinctly Buddhist-altruistic character which defines the Tibetan culture, underlining its enduring global appeal. (TibetanReview.net, Jan17’24) Tibet’s culture is UNIQUE.  There is no other culture like it in the world.  It is a unique blend of...

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...
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Genocidal China condemned for catena of Tibet violations in US annual rights report

(TibetanReview.net, Apr24’24) —While highlighting China’s continued genocidal crimes against the predominantly Uyghur Muslims and others in East Turkestan (Xinjiang),...
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