(TibetanReview.net, Aug09’20) – A book on the environment co-authored by His Holiness the Dalai Lama with German environmental journalist Franz Alt is to be published later this November, reported the timesofindia.com Aug 9. The book, Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World, is on a subject the 1989 […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug05’20) – His Holiness the Dalai Lama has cited precautionary health measure in view of the Covid pandemic and his old age for being unable to attend the ‘Bhumi Pujan’ ceremony in Ayodhya on Aug 5 for the construction of the Ram Mandir there, reported tribuneindia.com Aug 4. Prime […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul31’20) – The Dalai Lama has expressed condolences on the passing away on Jul 30 of the man who steered Taiwan towards democracy and became its first popularly elected President in 1996. He has called Lee Teng-hui a personal friend whom he first met in 1997 and on several occasions […]

Whatever the legal status of Tibet might have been under international law, Tibet around the turn of the 20th century and thereafter abjectly lacked the power to enforce its claim of independence against a territorially assertive China, whether in the waning years of the Qing dynasty, or during the Kuomintang […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul19’20) – Although it was more than anything else the fear of torture and lengthy jail terms which has been the main preventive factor, China feels that its patriotism education had enabled it to ensure peace and stability in the country as well as in territories like Tibet and […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul16’20) – China has jailed in early July a Tibetan lyricist and a Tibetan singer in Qinghai Province for alleged “subversion” and “leaking state secrets,” said Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet Jul 15. A woman was also held for posting the song online but release later on. Lyricist Khadro […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul11’20) – As followers and devotees in the free world marked the Dalai Lama’s 85th birthday on Jul 6 with festivities, prayer services, charity events, environmental activism and the like, the Chinese government imposed a clampdown in many parts of his occupied homeland by banning outside visitors to monasteries. […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul11’20) – A Taiwan Parliament Group for Tibet, newly formed after the country’s Jan 2020 general election, has said Jul 8 that it hoped the Dalai Lama will soon be able to visit the island. Earlier, on Jul 6, Taiwanese Foreign Ministry suggested that it would welcome the Dalai […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul07’20) – Taiwan has said Jul 6 that it would welcome a visit by Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as Tibetans and his other devotees across the world marked his 85th birthday with prayers and charity events. The Dalai Lama last visited self-ruled Taiwan in Aug-Sep 2009 […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul06’20) – Calling a large gathering neither possible at this forbidding Covid-19 moment nor even necessary, the Dalai Lama has on Jul 6 asked his devotees to simply recite the universal six-syllable Tibetan Buddhist mantra at least a thousand times by way of wishing him well on his 85th […]