Opinions
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India China stand-off: Relevance of the Tibetan Special Forces
By now, we are all aware of the role of Special Frontier Force in the India China standoff along the territory of Ladakh and China occupied Kashmir. In this article, we will try to read between the lines on the contribution of Tibetans, the established capability of SFF and the stance of India and China…
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Urgent Appeal From Tibetan Students At JNU
This is to bring to kind attention of all the stakeholders that the 1000 per cent fee hike for Tibetan students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is posing grave challenges to Tibetan students to complete studies and get admission. The fee is raised from 200 US Dollars per year previously, to 2400 US Dollars (for…
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Why am I running for Sikyong?
This moment calls on all Tibetans to rise to the occasion to address today’s challenges, promote unity, work to achieve our common goal, and build the future of our nation and people. It is with this deep sense of calling, I am offering my candidacy for the post of Sikyong for 2021.
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Ama Adhe: The lioness of Tibet
Life under the turquoise blue sky, pristine valleys and snow capped mountains came to an abrupt end when the bloody red stars shrouded the celestial skies. Overnight the quietness and the innocence of the beautiful place where she was born was raped and decimated by Mao’s men. Her family torn, her husband killed, this nomadic…
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Buddhist Majority Countries Been Spared by COVID-19?
With the countries across the world reeling by the impact of Coronavirus pandemic, Buddhist majority countries are faring well. Has COVID-19 spared these Buddhist majority countries? Is there some Karmic grace to explain the comparative stand out in terms of the impact of the pandemic that has caused the never seen health and economic devastation…
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Rinchen Lhamo and her life in the West
Rinchen Lhamo, a remarkable Tibetan woman in the 20th Century. She was born on 18 August 1901 at Rayaka,in Kham. In a precise location, Rayaka is seen at their Dartsedo county(དར་རྩེ་མདོ་རྫོང་།) of Sichuan Province. Dartsedo, a predominantly Tibetan region which carries historical significance of its own role as the border between eastern Tibet and China…
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Opinion: Bengal Tiger and Chinese Long
The Dalai Lama celebrated his 85th Birthday through a virtual platform on 6th July 2020 in India due to the pandemic that has spread all over the world. It was widely hailed by news channels from India to Europe and America, except China as a usual when it comes to the Dalai Lama , the…
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Celebrating the Tibetan Spiritual Heritage
My father was a gifted storyteller. Long before I had access to glossy images of Tibet, he would paint me beautiful images of the nomadic pastures in Eastern Tibet with his words, using an amazing collection of adjectives that I cannot find in any other language. Then, over the years I loved to read accounts…
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1975: Introducing the Tibetan People to the World
Ever since I met the Dalai Lama in 1972, I’ve come to love the Tibetan people. With great pains, I introduced Tibetan “Folk Opera” to the world in 1975 (see 5th story). For the first time ever, Tibetans left their community to travel to the West. Twenty-four performers came to tour Europe and America for…
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and my late father
My father had passed away seven years ago with His Holiness in his heart and my family in Tibet kept it a secret from me for more than eight months thinking that it would muddle my study in school. I stipulated myself to pass over it even though I had already heard the truth. I…