Norbu Tsering* is concerned that a seemingly domineering coterie of members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, some using the tool of scriptural-line flourishes, appear to have made it the sine qua non of their functioning to try...
China’s new religious crackdown in Tibet appears to have a broader context and has especially come at a time when there is growing interest in the mainland on Tibetan culture and spiritual tradition as some Chinese search for a...
A humane, erudite, and a straight-talking man of principle, and a friend of HH the Dalai Lama, the internationally well-known award winning journalist Mr Jonathan Mirsky who passed away earlier this month (Sep 5) will be remembered for his...
Tenzin Choeying* argues that the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission should not have penalized the Standing Committee members of the 16th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) as it did for their decision to cancel a session of the TPiE; he...
Nehru welcomed the Dalai Lama as a refugee in 1959 and facilitated the establishment of the Tibetan Government in Exile in India. However, he didn’t oppose the Chinese occupation of Tibet and in some ways actively facilitated it, argues...
Thupten Namgyal* contends that the Golden Urn, though possibly used or claimed to have been used to appease China, did not at all determine the outcome of the selection of the 10th, 11th and 12th Dalai Lamas as Sikyong...
If the Tibetan Parliament in Exile’s dismissal of the justice commissioners of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission lacked both legal authority and political prudence, the Kashag’s failure to rise to the occasion and, instead, maintaining of a deafening silence...
Professor Samdhong Rinpoche has pointed out what the law is, which no one has refuted. Dr Lobsang Sangay dominates the politics, which, unfortunately, has negated the law, leading to a constitutional breakdown at the Central Tibetan Administration. Kunsang Tanzin*...
By Prof Nawang Phuntsog*
(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’21)
Undoubtedly, the current Tibetan Parliament's unfortunate legacy is its recent unconstitutional and unlawful action resulting in three Justice Commissioners' simultaneous termination. Those members who voted for the Commissioners' removal resolution had not read the...
Lawyer Tenzin Jungnay* presents a legal analysis of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile’s Mar 2021 decision to dismiss the entire bench of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission to find the latter patently wrong on every bit of the justifications...
