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Sri Lanka Current Predicament due to China’s Debt Trap
China is substantially to blame for Sri Lanka’s current position along with the island nation’s rulers’ budgetary profligacy, which is presently wracked by economic and political turmoil. Sri Lanka has received huge loans from China, which it has used to construct an airport and a seaport. The airport, Mattala Rajapaksa International airport, which has been…
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Tenzin Tsundue Bravely Displays Tibetan Flag At Geneva Summit
Mr. Tenzin Tsundue, a well-known Tibetan freedom activist, announced on his official Facebook page on April 2nd that he will be on a speaking tour in Europe, beginning with the Geneva Summit on Human Rights on April 4-6, and continuing with events in Switzerland 7-10, Sweden 11-17, Norway 18-20, Denmark 20-22, Spain 23-25, and the…
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Tibetan Delegation Campaigns in Delhi After Chinese FM’s India Visit
This week, the Tibetan parliamentary delegation led by Dolma Tsering been meeting Indian MPs and political leaders, with a focus on interactions with lawmakers from the north-eastern states to discuss China’s “hydro-hegemony” by controlling the waters of cross-border rivers like the Brahmaputra. Since Monday, the delegation led by legislators Tenpa Yarphel, Khenpo Kada Ngedup Sonam,…
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Indian MP Moves Bill to Include Tibetan(Bhoti) As One of India’s Official Languages
In an unprecedented move, the Honourable Member of Parliament Mr. Jamyang Tsering Namgyal introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Lok Sabha on April 1, 2022, to put the Bhoti Language in the Indian constitution’s 8th Schedule.
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Dalai Lama Graces An Audience to Shoton Festival Participating Troupe
On the second day of Shoton Festival, this morning at Tsuglagkhang, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a special audience to the eight participating troupes of the 25th Shoton festival in Dharamshala, as well as members of the Middle Way Approach Conference.
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TIPA hosts 25th Tibetan Opera Festival Shoton
On Wednesday, TIPA initiated its 25th Tibetan Shoton Festival which celebrates Tibetan Opera from April 6 to 13 here at Dharamshala. Shoton translates to “yogurt banquet” in Tibetan. Tibetan artists perform traditional operas throughout the event, and prominent monasteries showcase enormous Thangkas – Buddha paintings.
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Tibetans observe candlelight vigil for 81-yrs man’s self-immolation.
Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in Dharamshala on Monday for a candlelight vigil in memory of a Tibetan man who self-immolated on March 27. On Monday evening, five major Tibetan NGOs joined together to hold a candlelight vigil in support of Taphun.
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Ukraine Invasion reawaken Memories of Tibet Invasion
According to one international law jurist, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has reawakened memories of China’s colonization of Tibet. According to The Singapore Post, Prof. Michael Van Walt Van Praag, a jurist specializing in international conflict resolution, remarked “an interesting outcome of the events in Ukraine today is that it has helped the world…
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Gyuto Monastery Gets 5-yr FCRA approval
Gyuto Tantric Monastery has been granted a five-year FCRA license by the Centre. The monastery served as the Karmapa’s temporary residence. The Himachal police raided the monastery in 2011 and claimed to have seized $7.05 crore in foreign currencies. Gyuto monastery abbot Lobsang Khedup verified the news according to ET(economic times), saying, “The FCRA license…
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Octogenarian Tibet man self-immolates at Kirti Monastery
RFA reported on 3rd April that an 81-year-old Tibetan man died after a self-immolation protest against Chinese control last week outside a police station in front of a major monastery in the western Chinese province of Sichuan. The report mentioned that the Kirti event occurred three days before the most recent documented self-immolation, which occurred…