A human rights watchdog based in India has demanded international community’s intervention in the “unfair prison sentence” handed down to Tulku Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche by the Chinese government over charges of alleged possession of weapons and land, the accusations which the Tibetan lama and his Chinese defence lawyer denied.

 

Dharamshala: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights […]

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Dharamshala: Tashi Lhunpo monastery and the Central Association of His Serenity the Panchen Lama today made a grand tenshug or long-life prayer offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Thekchen Choeling Tsuglakhang, Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala, in a ceremony to commemorate twenty years of the passing away of His Serenity the 10th Panchen Lama.

 

The tenshug […]

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Dharamsala Dec 31 – The Tibetan Youth Congress carried out a protest in the Indian capital to condemn the Chinese government’s crackdown on Tibetan petitioners in Tibet’s Nyakchuka County. The largest Tibetan NGO, which seeks complete independence for Tibet as opposed to the Middle Way Approach of the Tibetan exile government to seek autonomy, demanded […]

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By WEI JINGSHENG
WASHINGTON — Last week, a moderate reformist in China, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Chinese government for the mere act of organizing and signing a petition, Charter 08, calling for political reform and the basic human rights much of the world already enjoys.
The message was clear for […]

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By Phurbu Thinley
Dharamsala, December 30: The exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today joined thousands of Tibetan exiles in a ceremonial function commemorating the 20th death anniversary of the 10th Panchen Lama, Lhundrup Choekyi Gyaltsen.

Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama releases a book at a commemoration ceremony to mark 20 years since […]

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Tibetan Buddhist monk has been jailed for eight and a half years by a Chinese court on arms and property charges, his former lawyers said on Thursday, in one of the most high-profile convictions following unrest last year.
Phurbu Tsering is a “living Buddha” from Ganzi, a part of southwest China’s Sichuan […]

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A senior Tibetan religious leader, known as a “Living Buddha”, has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after being arrested in the wake of protests last year.

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 11:09PM GMT 30 Dec 2009

Mr Phurbu was initially charged with the illegal possession of firearms.
Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, the 52-year-old head of the Pangri […]

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New Delhi, Dec 31 (ANI): Tibetans-in-exile in India held a protest march here today against China’s suppression of Tibetan nationals in Nyagchuka County in Tibet.
The protest march was held under the banner of the Tibetan Youth Congress, a worldwide organisation representing Tibetans-in-exile.
Carrying Tibetan flags and shouting slogans, Tibetan youth, monks and nuns demanded that Beijing […]

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The following is the text of the joint press statement issued today in Beijing, following the 6-day official visit by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to China. Both sides agreed to further strengthen political and economic ties.

PM Nepal with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Photo courtesy of Xinhua
Joint Press Release issued by Nepal-China in Beijing
At the […]

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