The Tibetan community living in exile is filled with a renewed hope after the US President Joe Biden recently signed the Resolve Tibet Act into a law. The act aims to promote dialogue without preconditions between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama, his representatives, or democratically elected leaders of the Tibetan community. “Our president Penpa Tsering, right from the …
Even to this day when the online narrative surrounding the event has become somewhat sympathising towards His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans, for leading global media such as the BBC to publish a vaguely titled article on Tibet’s precolonial time inferring “slavery” in Tibet— a popular propaganda narrative used by the Chinese government to justify its colonial occupation …
Streets and main market squares in Leh are decorated with banners and confetti to mark the arrival of the Dalai Lama on Friday. The Dalai Lama has been a regular to the Buddhist-majority Ladakh region, but in the last four years he chose to give it a miss owing to the Covid-19 situation. Businessman Ajaz Ahmad said vehicles carrying the …
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, on his birthday, the foreign ministers of India and China met on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Also spoke about other matters including students and flights.” Began my day in Bali by meeting FM Wang Yi of China. …
On a rainy afternoon on Sunday, April 11, Rinzin Lhundup was a quiet presence, listening to his friends intently as they chatted about the day’s proceedings over cups of steaming hot butter tea. This hasn’t stopped China from maintaining that the Dalai Lama is a “separatist” working to split Tibet, which it considers its inalienable territory, from China. A few, …