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March 2018

March 15, 2018

Got $12,000 to spend on a book? Murals of Tibet is Perfect for You

Signed by the Dalai Lama, with contributing authors Robert Thurman, Heather Stoddard, and Jakob Winkler and...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

Tibet Women’s Soccer Team to Play in Vancouver After U.S. Visa Denial

The Tibetan Women's Soccer team was denied entry into the United States as reported here...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Images of Tibet’s Larung Gar demolition, April 2016 – April 2017

This month, photographer Jesse Rockwell posted images of Larung Gar, a vast monastic complex in eastern...

March 2017

March 10, 2017

UPDATE: Tibet Women’s Soccer team finds allies in Congress

As reported recently, the Tibet Women's Soccer team, the "Snow Lionesses," has been denied visas...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

In the Obituary of a Tibetan Buddhism scholar, some ominous words

The obituary for Elliot Sperling begins as most do, noting the peaks of the man's...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

2 More Tibetan Nuns commit suicide as China destroys vast Buddhist religious city

Phayul news service reports that two more Tibetan nuns have taken their lives due to...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Tibetan Nun commits suicide as China destroys vast Buddhist religious city

This is Larung Gar a year ago. It is a vast monastic complex in eastern...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

Tibetans for Trump and other unintended consequences

Tenzin Pelkyi, a writer, law student, and editor at tibetanfeministcollective.org (and recent interviewee at this...

March 10, 2016

#Tibetan National Uprising Day marked around the World

Today, Tibetans and supporters of a free Tibet around the world mark the 57th anniversary...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

The Dalai Lama’s message on Living a Meaningful Life – Tibetan New Year

Speaking from the hospital in Rochester, Minnesota where he is undergoing precautionary prostate treatment, His Holiness...

February 02, 2016

The Tibetan Feminist Collective: an interview with co-founder Tenzin Pelkyi

Last month I shared two wonderful guest posts by researchers looking into race in American...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

In power grab from the Dalai Lama, China announces list of “verified living Buddhas” for Tibetan Buddhism

In what can only be described as an odd, if not cynical, move by the...

October 2015

October 03, 2015

Dalai Lama biography: “Man of Peace” is nearing its crowdfunding goal

With just under a month to go, the illustrated graphic novel of the Dalai Lama's...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

100 Arrested in India in pro-Tibet Rally

Today is the 56th anniversary of the March 10, 1959 start of the Tibetan uprising...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

The Onion sends NBC’s Brian Williams to Tibet

Wearing what appears to be a Japanese Zen robe and a shaggy beard with his...

February 07, 2015

Jay Michaelson is right, don’t get your hopes up for Tibet

The mere sight of the Dalai Lama smiling brings joy to many of us. Knowing...

February 05, 2015

President Obama warmly welcomes the Dalai Lama in Washington [Video]

In the first public meeting of the two world leaders,* President Obama took a moment...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Dalai Lama likely to have first public appearance with President Obama next week

TIME reports today that H.H. the Dalai Lama will appear for the first time in...

January 07, 2015

The Dalai Lama, snubbed by Pope and world leaders, may speak at Glastonbury Festival in June

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, once hailed as a "multimedia phenomenon and ascetic Buddhist superstar" by...

October 2014

October 25, 2014

Buddhism and the Environment in China: PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

PBS takes us to China this week, where the increasing signs of environmental degradation are...

September 2014

September 13, 2014

Double Dalai Lama or none: Buddhist leader contemplates ending reincarnations

This week the Dalai Lama is grabbing international headlines and as usual, Stephen Colbert's commentary...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

New Kadampa / Shugden followers protest Dalai Lama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Last week the Dalai Lama made a three-day visit to Oslo, Norway, where he received...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

Tibet’s Self-Immolation Protests Reach Shocking New Levels, a film by Journeyman Pictures

This recently posted video gives a rare and direct look inside the Tibetan community in...

March 2014

March 10, 2014

The Future of Tibet, a re-post in honor of Tibetan Uprising Day

The Tibetan Center in Kingston, New York, held a discussion last year of the six...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Spanish court rules for Tibetan victims of Chinese genocide

Spain's National Court has issued arrest warrants for former Chinese President Jiang Zemin (b. 1926), former...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

RIP Lou Reed: meditator, student of Buddhist philosophy, and friend of Tibet

"Lou Reed was not a Buddhist" writes Rod Meade Sperry for Shambhala SunSpace. However, he...

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