Monsoon Takes Break So Tibetans Can Celebrate Dalai Lama’s Birthday
NPR July 06, 2015 This weekend the monsoon started pouring down on the hilly streets of Dharamsala in northern India. But the rain held off on Monday as thousands of […]
NPR July 06, 2015 This weekend the monsoon started pouring down on the hilly streets of Dharamsala in northern India. But the rain held off on Monday as thousands of […]
Voice of America April 10, 2015 SYDNEY—Australia’s largest community of Tibetan refugees is based in a beach town in Sydney. In their new home far from the Himalayas, hundreds of […]
Voice of America February 20, 2015 SYDNEY—Millions of Tibetans are celebrating Losar, the Tibetan New Year. It’s the biggest holiday in the Tibetan calendar, but celebrations inside Tibet have been […]
Roads and Kingdoms March 10, 2014 Bylakuppe, India Indian pop music blasted within the autorickshaw and the flimsy metal buggy chugged to a raucous dance beat as we bumped along […]
Christian Science Monitor August 17, 2013 GURGAON AND DHARAMSALA, INDIA Karma Dhondup grew up in Mundgod, the large exile Tibetan settlement in south India, far from the rooftop of the world […]
New York Times Weekly August 2, 2013 DHARAMSALA, India — In a spacious classroom in this northern Indian hill town, 20 young Tibetan men and women sit in front of […]
Wall Street Journal August 17, 2012 Dharamsala, India A 35-year-old Tibetan nun named Palden Choetso set herself on fire on a street corner in southwest China last November. The final […]
Wall Street Journal Asia June 10, 2011 The Dalai Lama’s official role in the Tibetan exile administration has ended. The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), based in Dharamsala in northern India, […]
Buddha Dharma Magazine February 10, 2012 After twenty-one years of intensive study, Kelsang Wangmo, a German-born Tibetan Buddhist nun, has become the first woman to receive the prestigious geshe degree. Amy […]
Christian Science Monitor September 6, 2011 In Dharmasala, lawyer Vinayak Sharma uses his language and legal skills to help Tibetans facing India’s complex legal system. In this northern Indian hill […]