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Palden Sonam* expresses outrage at the suspicious circumstance in which Tulku Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, a victim of China’s campaign to assimilate Tibet and transnational repression, died in Vietnam on March 28, and calls the outrageous manner in which he...
Dr A B Sai Prasad* discusses the role played by Professor Pokala Lakshmi Narasu, ‘an uncompromising opponent of Religion’, in popularizing Buddhism in the 19th century, the mantle currently borne by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
“In history textbooks,” according...
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While it is generally believed that Buddhism had become almost extinct in India by the end of the 12th century, the fact that Buddhaguptha Natha, a Tamil Yogi who appeared like ‘Shukra’ in the sky of India’s Buddhism, led...
Recalling his experiences of listening clandestinely to the US government-funded radio broadcast services while living in Tibet and later working for it at great personal cost after arriving in exile, Gyaltsen Choedrak* argues that while China is spending many...
When lost in a crisis self-confidence and identity, Menda Rewa* finds that there is no alternative to sticking to one’s Tibetan root.
In India, she carried seven thick textbooks that were written entirely in Tibetan and a pencil case made...
Sharchok Khukta* argues that Tibetans remain ready to return to an autonomous homeland within the People’s Republic of China whereas the Chinese government keeps levelling false accusations and imposing impossible preconditions to prevent talks towards the realisation of this...
Shongka*, a Tibetan living in exile, recalls how listening to the Tibetan services of VOA and RFA during his childhood in Tibet regaled the day, connected Tibetans with the outside world, and sustained hopes for freedom, no matter how...
Prof Tenzin Dorjee* contends that what emerges as clear from the Dalai Lama’s most recently published book, Voice for the Voiceless, is that despite China's waiting game and resolve to choose their own reincarnation of him, the question of...
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Professor Tenzin Dorjee* argues that China cannot succeed in erasing Tibet's identity after turning "China's Tibet" into "Xizang" and hopes Prime Minister KPS Oli does not turn Nepal into "China's Nepal" by allowing the China-appointed Panchen Gyaincain Norbu to...
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While not claiming a direct causal link to the recent and widely welcomed amendment of the Charter of Tibetans in Exile by the Tibetan Parliament in Exile—which allows for the appointment of Justices to the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission,...
