Opinions
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COVID-19: Global Threat and Lesson
COVID-19 isn’t the first pandemic that has challenged and threatened human’s existence. Throughout the course of history, many epidemics have occurred and brought upon difficult times, sometimes even signaling the end of civilization. If we recall some of the deadly outbreaks in history, the dead tolls and figures remind us how a small bacteria or…
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These Are Early Symptoms and Precautions of Novel Coronavirus
The deadly novel Coronavirus from Wuhan city in China is a global emergency. With officially accounted death of more 1500 people mostly in China, many doubt that the real stats are many folds more from the virus. The number of infected have spiked above fifty thousand people that too mostly from China. Tibet under Chinese…
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H.E. Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche in Memoriam
Early on Monday, 30th of December 2019, the beloved Nyingma master, Kyabje Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche, IV passed away. As of January 9th 2020, he was still resting in inner luminosity in the (post-death) thugdam meditative state. Especially during that period devotees and members of the Chime Gatsaling Monastery communities were encouraged to pray for a swift rebirth and continuation…
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Reflection on the decade gone. Thoughts for the new one
The decade of 2010-2020 saw the expedited decay of the Free Tibet movement on top of its already decomposing state. Tibet transformed in the arena of world politics from a genuine political case of China’s suzerainty over Tibet to a backward shift of moral and human rights issue.
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Three Tibetans at Starbucks
It was a busy day working on the production of my next day’s hour-long show as I work for a TV/radio. My neck and shoulder were screaming out for a much-needed break. Two of my colleagues who were also working so far were about to leave for a cup of coffee outside. I sprang up…
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With Chinese Provocations, India Must Listen to the Dalai Lama
As the Chinese government has been screaming across the world not to interfere in the internal matter of China when it came to raising voices for Tibet and other occupied regions, why is it interfering in the internal matter of India? With the Chinese provocations over the Kashmir issue, it is time that India listen…
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A question every Tibetan must ask before their mirror
Times have changed but are no longer strange. Beijing just upped the ante and called the pro democracy protesters terrorist. Hong Kong is a hair closer to becoming the next Tiananmen massacre as China warns of playing with fire and hints at military intervention. United States led by Trump has vowed to escalate trade war…
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Sixty years of Tibetan struggle and the way forward
Its 60 years now since Tibetans inside and outside continue their struggle against the Communist regime of China for their legitimate rights over language, tradition and culture. On 10 March 1959 thousands of Tibetans came to the streets protesting against the Chinese occupation and their picturesque capital city of Lhasa became the epicenter of anti-Chinese…
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This Street has Our Name
Few years ago, when I was driving up the hills of Ithaca towards Cornell university, I stumbled upon a street name out of the blue called the Tibet Road. A quiet corner of a single lane road it was, surrounded by the usual quietness of the nature and probably punctuated by the frequent crossing of…
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In Tibet You Get Money to Display Xi Jinping Portraits But Punished for Dalai Lama’s
The worsening human rights situation in Tibet is for real. The Chinese authorities controlling Tibetans in Tibet offers money for displaying the portraits of Xi Jinping while it brutally punishes anyone even possessing the pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama! The state interference in Tibetan religious freedom is very serious in real.