Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: May 27, 2009
Among the “burning issues” in Washington, D.C. (actually among those who follow US-China relations and Tibet) currently is what is Speaker Nancy Pelosi is saying in China regarding human rights and Tibet during her first ever visit as the Speaker.
Given her background everyone expected that Speaker Pelosi would be raising issues such as Tibet during [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: May 17, 2009
First it was Bhutan, when the public there virtually voted in a one-party rule by giving the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa 45 of the 47 seats in the first ever elections to the National Assembly. The People’s Democratic Party secured a mere two seats and subsequently has gone into some sort of disarray. That was in [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: May 15, 2009
The first ever comparatively widely circulated Tibetan newspaper Yulchog Sosoi Sargyur Melong (a mouthful that is given a shorter name in English as Tibet Mirror) can now be read online, thanks to an initiative by Columbia University.
This newspaper was founded by Babu Tharchin, whose biography Called from Obscurity: The Life and Times of a True [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: May 14, 2009
I have not been a fan of our traditional drink, Chang (fermented beer or wine. While we are on it, is Chang a wine or a beer?). As a child I would take a sip or two from the bowl that my parents used. They, too, stopped drinking eventually. These days, except for the possible [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: May 7, 2009
Among the myriad of programs during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s just concluded visit to the United States was an event with members of the Indian community in the New York area. This was part of the program to thank India for its assistance to the Tibetan people that the Tibetan leadership in India has [...]
Posted by: Bhuchung Tsering on: May 3, 2009
To an average Tibetan the name of Nathula evokes the memory of the exodus in 1959 when several thousand Tibetans may have crossed over through that pass, from Tibet, to seek refuge in Sikkim and India.
Prior to 1959 Nathula symbolised the trade relationship between Tibetans and Sikkimese and Indians, for this was the main entry [...]
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