DHARAMSHALA: A two-member Australian Parliamentary delegation visited the Tibetan community in Dharamsala from 10 – 13 July.

Senators Lisa Singh-MP, Labour Party and Larissa Waters-MP, Green Party, met the standing committee of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. Speaker Penpa Tsering briefed the two senators about the critical situation inside Tibet
and appealed to them to support the just cause of Tibet. The Tibetan Parliament hosted a dinner reception and a cultural performance at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in their honour, the Tibetan Parliament said in a statement on its website.

The senators also met Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay and Dicki Chhoyang, Kalon for the Department of Information & International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration.

They visited Tibetan cultural, religious and educational institutions, and all spectrum of Tibetan civil society in and around Dharamsala.

The senators said they would impress upon the Australian government and their allies to engage the Chinese government in resolving the issue of Tibet.

Senator Lisa Singh is a Labor party MP from Tasmania. She is the first person of South Asian decent to be elected to the Australian Parliament in 2010. She is a member of the Australian All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet. She met His Holiness the Dalai Lama in her home state of Tasmania. In March 2012 she met a group of Tibetan representatives in her office as part of the Tibet Advocacy Project, and has recently joined the Australian All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet.

Senator Larissa Waters is a Greens party senator from Queensland since 2010. She has met local Tibetans in her office in Brisbane.

(ABC) MELBOURNE: The Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile is in Melbourne, and he will use his first official Australian visit to seek support for his plan for a peaceful resolution to the Tibetan crisis.
Lobsang Sangay was elected as leader of the Central Tibetan Administration after the Dalai Lama retired from political life last year.

He will head to Canberra and Sydney over the next week.

Doctor Sangay says he believes there will be a resolution to the issues facing Tibet.
“The Berlin Wall came down, Nelson Mandela, 27 years in prison, no-one thought he could be freed,” he said.
“Gaddafi is gone and Hosni Mubarak.
“Aung San Suu Kyi just got released, she swept the 44 seats in the Parliament, just received her Nobel Peace prize so I’m in that world where someone says it’s impossible, very difficult, I say it’s possible.”
He says he will speak to Australian political leaders about the worsening humanitarian situation in Tibet.
“You can’t have rallies, you can’t have demonstrations,” he said.
“Even posting posters on a wall can have you arrested and tortured, often disappear.
“The situation inside Tibet is so oppressive that Tibetans are choosing to die.
“The Chinese Government seems to be cracking down more and now they have closed off Tibetan areas for tourists also.”
He says a request to meet Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr has so fare been rebuffed.
“Obviously the Australian leaders ought to listen to the Chinese Government and Chinese leaders, but at the same time, it’s only fair that you listen to other side as well,” he said.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

China belongs to its 1.3 billion people not to the Communist Party: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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June 21, 2012 11:38 am

Speaking at the University of Westminster where he had been invited to give the CR Parekh Lecture on the Values of Democracy and Tibet, His Holiness said “Look at India and China, both have huge populations, but the difference is that India is a democracy with a functioning judiciary, a country where there is freedom of speech and a free press. Meanwhile, the Chinese communist party are so concerned about the disintegration of their country that they forcefully restrict the unique aspects of minority groups. I recommend Chinese I meet to look at pluralistic India and learn from it”
His Holiness asserted that, just as America belongs to its 300 or so million citizens, not to either the Republican or Democratic parties, and China belongs to its 1.3 billion people not to the Communist Party, the world belongs to the 7 billion people who live here. He said democracy is the best way for a country to be ruled by its people for its people.
For one thing, leaders who are elected are necessarily accountable. In this context he said, the 1.3 billion Chinese people have a right to know the reality of their situation and, on that basis, have the ability to know right from wrong and take their own decisions. However, he quoted a friend who had observed that in New Zealand, a country of only 3 million, power is in the hands of all the people, whereas in China with its population of 1.3 billion, power is in the hand of only nine men.
Addressing representatives of NGOs and Tibet Support Groups shortly afterwards, he was asked whether it was better to support the preservation of Tibetan culture or to take up political issues. He asked in return what is the main factor that has kept the Tibetan spirit alive and suggested that it was Tibetan Buddhist Culture.

He also made the interesting point that the Tibetan exile administration has referred to the Three Provinces of Tibet since they were in the transit camp at Misamari in Assam in 1959. The term Greater Tibet that seems to so enrage the Chinese is in fact a Chinese invention. He said that to recognise only the so called Tibet Autonomous Region as Tibet would mean that he, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, who was sitting next to him, and several others in the room would no longer count as Tibetans. Moreover, the entire 6 million Tibetan people participate in and employ Tibetan literature and its language. He expressed his appreciation of the work Tibet Support Groups and allied NGOs do and requested them to continue.
After lunch His Holiness gave an interview to the BBC’s Andrew Marr in the course of which they discussed the history and future of the lineage of Dalai Lamas, His Holiness’s meetings with Chairman Mao Zedong, whether he might have worked more effectively for Tibet if he hadn’t escaped and the implications of the present spate of self-immolations in Tibet.
At the Royal Albert Hall, nearly 6000 people gave His Holiness a rousing welcome.
Tomorrow, His Holiness will speak at the London School of Economics about Resisting Intolerance: an Ethical and Global Challenge, and will attend an inter-religious gathering at Westminster Abbey and meet with Parliamentarians at the Palace of Westminster.

Pictures from Tibet

Pictures from Tibet

Tibetan Singers

Poster from a hometown festival

Pictures of the winners of the Horse racing

Picture of a child minding his beloved dog

བོད་མི་ ༢ ཀྱིས་མེར་བསྲེགས།

འདོན་སྤེལ། ༢༠༡༢/༠༦/༢༠

དེ་རིང་ཕྱི་དྲོ་ཁམས་ཡུལ་ཤུལ་ཁུལ་རྫ་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ་དུ་བོད་མི་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་རང་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེགས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་བྱས་འདུག

རྒྱ་གར་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་སེར་བྱེས་ལྡན་མ་ཁང་ཚན་གྱི་གྲྭ་བློ་བཟང་སངས་རྒྱས་ལགས་ཀྱིས་འདི་གར་གནས་ཚུལ་མཁོ་སྤྲོད་བྱས་པ་ལྟར་ན། དེ་རིང་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༢༠ ཉིན་གྱི་བོད་ནང་གི་ཕྱི་དྲོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༣།༣༠ ཐོག་རང་ལོ་ ༢༢ ཡིན་པའི་ངག་དབང་ནོར་འཕེལ་དང་། རང་ལོ་ ༢༤ ཡིན་པའི་བསྟན་འཛིན་མཁས་གྲུབ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་ཁམས་ཡུལ་ཤུལ་རྫ་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ་དུ་རང་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེགས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་བྱས་འདུག  

གནས་ཚུལ་ཤེས་རྟོགས་བྱུང་བ་ལྟར་ན། ངག་དབང་ནོར་འཕེལ་ནི་ཨ་མདོ་རྔ་བ་རྫོང་གི་ཡིན་འདུག་ལ། ཕ་མིང་ལ་ལྷག་པ་དོན་འགྲུབ་དང་ཨ་མའི་མིང་ལ་ཚེ་རིང་དབྱངས་ཅན་འབོད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་འདུག ལོ་ཤས་གོང་རྫ་སྟོད་དུ་ཡོང་སྟེ་བསྡད་ཡོད་འདུག བསྟན་འཛིན་མཁས་གྲུབ་ལགས་ནི། ཁམས་ཡུལ་ཤུལ་ཁུལ་ཁྲི་འདུ་རྫོང་ཉ་མཚོ་སྡེ་བའི་སྐམ་ཡུལ་རུ་ཁག་གསུམ་པ་ནས་ཡིན་ཞིང་།ཕ་མིང་ལ་ལེགས་གྲུབ་དང་མ་སྐྱིད་འཛོམས་།དེ་སྔོན་ཟིལ་དཀར་དགོན་གྱི་གྲྭ་བ་ཡིན་ལ་ཉིས་སྟོང་དྲུག་ལོར་སྐྱ་སར་བབས་འདུག

ཉེ་ཆར་ཁོང་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་མེར་བསྲེགས་མ་བཏང་བའི་སྔོན་དུ་ཞལ་ཆེམས་ཡི་གེ་ཅིག་བཞག་ཡོད་པའི་ནང་། ངེད་གཉིས་ལ་མཚོན་ན་བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་དང་རིག་གནས་སོགས་གང་ལ་ཡང་ནུས་པ་འདོན་མི་ཐུབ་ཅིང་། དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་ནས་བོད་མི་མང་ལ་ཕན་པའི་ལས་ཀ་ཅི་ཡང་བྱེད་མི་ཐུབ། དེའི་ཕྱིར་ངེད་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་རང་གི་ནུས་ཚོད་ཀྱིས་བོད་མི་རིགས་དང་ལྷག་པར་དུ་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཚེ་ཁྲི་ཕྲག་ནས་ཁྲི་ཕྲག་ཏུ་བརྟན་པ་དང་། གཞན་ཡང་ཁོང་མྱུར་དུ་བོད་ལ་ཞབས་སོར་ཐུབ་པའི་རམ་འདེགས་སུ་རང་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེགས་ཀྱི་ལས་གཞི་འདི་འདེམས་པ་ཡིན། ངེད་གཉིས་དང་འདྲ་བའི་བོད་ཀྱི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཚོར་ཞུ་སྙིང་། ང་ཚོའི་བོད་ནང་ཁུལ་ནས་རྒྱག་རེས་རྒྱག་རྒྱུ་དང་། ནང་རྩོད་བྱེད་རྒྱུའི་བྱ་སྤྱོད་རིགས་ནམ་ཡང་མ་བྱེད་པའི་དམ་བཅའ་དང་། ཚང་མས་རྡོག་རྩ་གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་གྱིས་བོད་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་ལ་རྒྱ་འཛིན་ཐུབ་རྒྱུའི་རེ་བ་དང་ཡིད་ཆེས་ཡོད་ཅེས་འཁོད་འདུག

Two youths self-immolate in Tibet

Calling for Dalai Lama’s return, two youths self-immolate in Tibet

June 20: Barely a week after an elderly Tibetan nomad burned himself to death,

two youth set themselves on fire in anti-China protest today in Yushul Tibet Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province.

Ngawang Norphel (22) and Tenzin Khedup (24) set their bodies on fire in Zatoe town in Yushul around 3:30 pm (local time), according to Lobsang Sangay, a Tibetan monk, who cited sources in the region. Khedup reportedly died after the protest while Norphel is believed to have survived and remained in hospital.

A short video clip, purported to be of the duo’s self-immolation, shows the two youths, both carrying a Tibetan national flag, engulfed in fire.

The duo allegedly left a note explaining their deadly protest days before carrying out the self-immolation.

“We send prayers for long life of Dalai Lama and call for his immediate return,” the note allegedly explained of their self-immolation act.

The two youths described themselves as poorly educated and financially weak to do anything for Tibet’s freedom and termed their self-immolation as their only resort to fight for Tibet’s cause.

The two youth also called on Tibetans to refrain from fighting among themselves and to focus on “unity in order to preserve Tibetan identity and spirit.”

The source said Norphel, son of Lhakpa Dhondup and Tsering Yangchen, hails from the troubled region of Ngaba where most of the reported self-immolation occurred so far. Khedup hails from Thridu County in Yushul Tibet Autonomous Prefecture.

The latest twin self-immolations takes to 41, the number of Tibetans who took to the deadly form of protest since 2009 to challenge China’s rule of their homeland and to call for the return of Dalai Lama.

Last Updated ( 20 June 2012 )

Kalon Tripa to Visit Australia

Jun 20, 2012 in Featured, News

DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay will visit Australia from 24 June to 1 July.
Kalon Tripa will leave Dharamsala tommorrow for Delhi where he is scheduled to meet some important officials. He will leave Delhi for Australia on 23 June.
During his visits to Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane, Kalon Tripa will meet Members of Parliament, members of think-tank, sponsors, and the media. He will also speak to the Tibetan community based in different parts of the country in Brisbane on 1 July.