After his dramatic escape from Tibet in December 1999, the young Gyalwa Karmapa became an immediate celebrity in the exile community – in a reverential Tibetan sort of way, of course. A group of students …

It was somewhere in an article by George Orwell that I came across the phrase “the solipsism of the sick man”, i.e. the inability of people mired in depression, disease or suffering to see beyond …

Tibetan envoys Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen return to India after unfruitful talk with Chinese Government in May 2008.

The following letter was written by a resident of Lhasa, who wishes to remain anonymous. It gives a personal account of the current situation and the tense atmosphere in the city:
Yesterday it was quite …

Jamyang Norbu says in the introduction to this collection of his essays that his role model is George Orwell. Having read Orwell’s collected essays, and Jamyang Norbu’s, I think that Orwell might well feel proud …

I must ask the reader’s forgiveness for my occasional forays into amateur psychology. I wrote about something like this in a previous article but I want to discuss another kind of recurring nightmare, also known …

The year 2008, for many reasons, is likely to go down in the annals of recent Tibetan history as a watershed year. This was the year when Tibetans in Tibet, 49 years after the takeover …

The press briefing by the envoys of the Dalai Lama given upon their return from their first talks with their Chinese counterparts since the recent unrest and crackdown in Tibet. Filmed for …

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by Venkatesan Vembu
HONG KONG: In 1962, Jamyang Norbu dropped out of school to enlist with a Tibetan guerrilla force, funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to fight for Tibetan independence from …

The Tibetan writer Woeser, under house arrest in Beijing since March 10th, has been constantly writing and updating the world about the recent events in Tibet. She has posted five reports titled Tibet Update 1, …