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Archive for March 2009

South Africa Loses Moral High Ground over Dalai Lama

Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: March 24, 2009

What could have been one of the several “peace” conferences that concerned personalities throughout the world convene turned out to be not only a loss of face but also of its moral standing for the South African Government.
The plot unvieled like this. 

What does one mean by a successful Tibetan?

Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: March 16, 2009

How does one define success? This is something that I grapple on a daily basis. On a broader level, this 50th year of the Tibetan life in exile leads one to review the nature of the success of the community as a whole. A book compiling the feelings of individual Tibetans is already being planned [...]

Memories Evoked by a Tibetan’s Novel

Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: March 15, 2009

For the past some days I had the occasion to relive my college-day experiences in Delhi University through the novel Falling Through the Roof by Thupten Samphel.
Although I entered college just as Samphel la was about to graduate we were in the same generation of students that had a similar social experience. [...]

What would happen in Tibet ?

Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: March 10, 2009

I woke up today with some sort of trepidation. Today is March 10, the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of 1959. More pertinent, it is the first anniversary of the Tibet-wide demonstration that we saw last year.

Tibetan Long Life Offering to the Dalai Lama

Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: March 9, 2009

This morning, the Tibetan Government-in-Exile made a Tenshug offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. Irrespective of whether one understood the proceedings or not, the ceremony was deeply moving. The ceremony included the participation of most of the high ranking Tibetan lamas from all the religious lineages. There were the [...]


 

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