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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Anthony Avice Du Buisson says the continued existence of Tibetans and their independence movement undermines the PRC’s narrative of an ethno-nationalist Chinese statehood – the creation of a homogenous Chinese Civilizational state encapsulated by President Xi Jinping's vision of...
Prof Nawang Phuntsog* observes that while the rhetorical gyrations in the autonomy versus independence debate over the past decades have only generated more heat than light, the middle way approach is innovative, visionary, inclusive, and revolutionary with a path...
