”Tibetans” News

On display: conflicting Chinese, Tibetan views

BEIJING – The image is iconic: Smiling Tibetan farmers hoist a giant portrait of China's communist revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as they walk under a clear blue sky. The 1959 photo on display in 03 13 2009 1:46PM (...more)

Dalai Lama says favours democratic leadership

DHARAMSALA (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama has encouraged Tibetans in exile to embrace the democratic system of electing a leader, saying it was essential to keep step with the larger world and to ensure the continuity of their government.
06 23 2009 4:52PM (...more)

Dalai Lama says favors democratic leadership

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama has encouraged Tibetans in exile to embrace the democratic system of electing a leader, saying it was essential to keep step with the larger world and to ensure the continuity of their
06 23 2009 3:36PM (...more)

Tibetans protest outside Chinese embassy in India

NEW DELHI – Nine Tibetan students were detained by police Monday after they stripped and chained themselves to barbed wire fencing outside the Chinese Embassy to protest the sentencing to death of two Tibetans by a Chinese court, police
04 15 2009 6:37PM (...more)

Dalai Lama takes his case to Chinese émigrés

Dharamsala, India – When the Dalai Lama traveled to the Netherlands last week his Buddhist teaching was heard by 10,000 people and he was received by the mayor of Amsterdam. But the exiled 06 20 2009 6:27PM (...more)

Chinese guards fired on Tibetans: group

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Chinese border guards fired on agroup of Tibetans, including children, fleeing across theHimalayas into Nepal earlier this month, but nobody was hurt,an organization working for the Tibetan cause said.
10 31 2007 3:12PM (...more)

In image war over Tibet, China deploys own lama

BEIJING — In the propaganda war to implant its views of Tibet as widely as possible, China increasingly is deploying a lanky 19-year-old Tibetan with rimless glasses, a hint of a mustache
03 28 2009 12:49PM (...more)

Tibetan lama on trial for weapons charge in China

BEIJING – A respected Tibetan lama went on trial on weapons charges Tuesday as three people were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for deadly arson attacks during last year's rioting in the Tibetan capital. Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, who headed a convent in Ganzi, a predominantly
05 20 2009 9:39AM (...more)

Dutch to invite Dalai Lama to parliament

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch lawmakers said Thursday they will invite the Dalai Lama to parliament despite a warning from China that the visit would harm relations between the two
04 17 2009 12:09PM (...more)

Two Tibetans get death for role in Lhasa riots

BEIJING (Reuters) – Two Tibetans have been sentenced to death for their role in riots in Tibet's regional capital of Lhasa last year,
04 9 2009 9:02PM (...more)