I do not know if you are like me, but I find it extremely distressing to see how commonly the adjective “desperate” has been used by the media and Tibetans in exile to describe the …

In 1946 when the Muslim League declared “Direct Action Day” and some of the most horrendous and large scale Hindu-Muslim violence erupted throughout India, one of the worst hit areas was the Noakhali district of …

(RANGZEN MERO* PARWA)
In mid-December last year, Mohamed Bouazizi, a humble Tunisian street-vendor of fruits and vegetables, set himself on fire to protest the confiscation of his produce and the daily harassment and humiliation inflicted on …

One of the highest, most commendable achievements of the Tibetan people during the last 52 years in exile has been our ability, despite extreme challenges and pressures over the years to safeguard and retain the …

དེ་རིང་བོད་ཀྱི་དྲ་བརྙན་བརྒྱུད་ནས་ བཀའ་བློན་ཁྲི་པ་མཆོག་གིས་ “བོད་གཞུང་”དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གསལ་བཤད་གནང་བ་དེར་ཉན་པ་ཡིན།

I had not yet fully digested the scope of the Dalai Lama’s retirement when I was struck by a curious remarks made by Lobsang Sangay on BBC’s HARDtalk and NDTV’s Your Call. According to the …

The sort of political sentence pronounced on the Tibetan people resembles the terrible “death by a thousand cuts”. This was a form of execution practiced in China until the early twentieth century, in which the …

I’m going to assume that most people reading this post know who Barry Sautman is (and no, he’s not the one in the picture; that’s King George I and to see what he’s doing in …

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 – …

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。