“Trash For Education” Exhibition Underway in Dharamsala
Dharamshala: “Trash For Education” an exhibition initiated by Tenzin Pelmo, an English teacher from Upper TCV school in collaboration with the Environment Development Desk of the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), is being showcased at the DIIR's Lhakpa Tsering auditorium today.Speaking to reporters at the exhibition, Tenzin Pelmo said that the novel idea of reusing trash for educational purposes is a brain child of years of hard-work and interest in the fie

Kashag Mourns the Passing Away of Mrs Danielle Mitterrand
Dharamshala, India: - The Kashag has condoled the sad demise of Mrs Danielle Mitterrand, the former first lady of France, describing her as a great and firm friend of the Tibetan people. "The Kashag has learned with great sadness the passing away of Mrs Danielle Mitterrand, the former first lady of France. Mrs Danielle Mitterrand was great friend of Tibet and had huge respect for His Holiness the Dalai Lama," the Kashag said in a statement today. "In her passing away the Tibetan people has l

Statement of the outgoing Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche
Dharamshala: - With profound respect to Your Holiness, the democratic leadership of the Tibetan people, your excellencies, the honorable guests and the Tibetans in and outside Tibet. On the auspicious occasion of oath-taking ceremony of the third Kalon Tripa democratically elected by the Tibetan people, I happily and proudly offer my heartfelt greetings and congratulate to you all.

My long-cherished aspiration fulfilled, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama
DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama today said his long-cherished aspiration has been fulfilled, as the Tibetan people put in place Dr. Lobsang Sangay as the democratically elected leader vested with full political authority and responsibility.

Tibetan Political Leader's Response to Questions During Press Conference
Around 92 journalists from India and abroad covered the historic swearing-in of Dr. Lobsang Sangay as the 3rd democratically elected Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala on 8 August 2011. During a Meet the Press event on the day, Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay answered questions on a wide-range of issues such as policy formulation, reforms, and challenges to resolve the issue of Tibet that he will take on during his leadership.

Kashag's Clarifications on the Amendments to the Charter for Tibetans-in-Exile
Honourable Speaker, When the parliamentary secretariat asked if the Kashag had any agenda to be included in the first session of the Fifteenth Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, we said that the Kashag had no other agenda other than to offer our greetings. Later the Honourable Speaker has given the Kashag this opportunity to make clarifications on some issues, which we readily accepted. Earlier when the Kashag offered greetings to the members of the fifteenth parliament, we specifically did not mentio

Tibet is Disappearing, Her Pain is My Shame
Tang Danhong ????(born in 1965 ) is a poet and documentary filmmaker from Chengdu, Sichuan. She has made several documentaries in and about Tibet since the 1990s. She wrote the following essay this week and published it on her own blog (hosted outside of China), partially translated by CDT: ... For more than a decade, I have frequently entered Tibet and often stayed there for a long time, traveling or working. I have met all kinds of Tibetans, from youngsters on the streets, folk

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Submits Retirement Decision to Parliament
Dharamshala: - The political and spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Monday has formally conveyed his retirement Decision to the 14th Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies. The 75-year-old Nobel peace laureate's decision was aimed to devolve his "formal authority" to an elected leader of the Tibet and Tibetan people. The message was read out by Mr. Penpa Tsering the speaker of the 14th Tibetan Parliament, where its last session was started today.

Dragon’s Terrorist Designs- Part-I
(The myth of the Tibetan Terrorism- A Study) ‘From the much abused clichés of ‘liberation’ and ‘globalization’, ‘Terrorism’, today has emerged as the latest global tool of tyranny and subjugation, and China is using it to the hilt.’

The Karmapa Conundrum
The Karmapa's defection was the biggest failure of Chinese policy in Tibet for the last 50 years.Anyone following the Indian media's obsession this month with a Buddhist monk would think the stories came from the pages of a cheap spy novel. Last month, India's police found $1.6 million in cash in various currencies—including Chinese yuan—at the north Indian monastery of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who as the 17th Karmapa is one of the most important spiritual figures in Tibetan Buddhism.