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The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest non-governmental organisation in the exile Tibetan community, held its 14th General Body Meeting this year on August 2nd at Dharamshala.
This year’s TYC Rangzen Award was a special one to …
A Comment on Lobsang Sangay's "Kalon Tripa Election Reform"
As the 2011 Kalon Tripa election nears, Tibetans need to seriously evaluate the candidates so that their decision is well-informed. As the Editorial Board of The Tibetan Political Review, we have not committed to supporting …
With Dharamshala’s foreign policy being shaped almost exclusively by Beijing’s hide-and-seek strategy, anticipating its next move can be safely done through a simple reading of China’s public statements. One of these was made in early …
Gyalrong 2008 & 1775
You would think that the first requirement in reporting a natural disaster would be getting the name of the geographical location right, especially in the case of an earthquake, which unlike unlike a messy flood …
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated the following blogpost from the Xining-based Tibetan website www.sangdhor.com.
Several days ago, thousands perished in the massive earthquake in Yushu and it caused suffering for tens of thousands of people. …
Tibet, China, and the Politics of Disaster
The Tibetans that died in Jyekundo had the right to die as Tibetans, not as Chinese.
The tragic 6.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Jyekundo yesterday has been consistently labeled the “China Quake” by …
Tibetan filmmaker Pema Dhondup’s “We are no Monks: A Struggle for Identity” is an important film. The last the Tibetans saw themselves on the screen, in all the scorching palettes of their oppression under the …
One Small Step For Democracy...
Some of you may have noticed. One reader pointed it out in a comment on Phayul.com. The title of this three-part essay was borrowed (and tweaked) from Samuel Becket’s famous play, Waiting for Godot – …
A book review
Tibet‘s Last Stand? The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China‘s Response
Author: Warren W.Smith Jr
299 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Year: 2010
Despite heightened international awareness of the situation inside Chinese occupied Tibet; the injustice, human rights atrocities, censorship …
Tibetan People's Right to Independence
曹长青
西藏问题,一直是一个争议的话题。不仅海峡两岸的中国政府与西藏流亡政府对此问题持截然不同的观点,海内外的中国人,对此看法也相当不同。这种种不同,主要源於人们对西藏历史与现实的了解程度和使用的“价值尺度”。因此,讨论西藏问题,不仅有助於了解西藏的真正历史和现实,更促使我们重新思考人的自由意志和国土统一;人民选择权利和国家形式;以及民族自决权等重要的价值概念和冲突。对这些价值采取什麽样的取舍,直接影响中国人走向自由和民主的进程。