Lobsang Sangay, See You in Court!
It has been a trying few months for the President of the Central Tibetan Administration, Sikyong Lobsang Sangay. Since he trounced political rival Penpa Tsering in the 2016 Sikyong elections, nothing has gone right for him…
Lobsang Sangay and Dhardon Sharling’s Catastrophic Legacy
The opinion piece below was sent to dorjeshugden.com for publication. We accept submissions from the public, please send in your articles to [email protected]. By: Shashi Kei The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the 14th Dalai Lama’s government-in-exile based in Dharamsala, is falling apart. The Sikyong (President) of the CTA, Lobsang Sangay has been globetrotting…
Dalai Lama corrects himself on Chinese Panchen Lama
The Dalai Lama has effectively admitted that he has erred on the Panchen Lama issue and his remarks recognize that the Chinese government has correctly chosen the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama…
China makes it easier to report troublemakers
China has recently launched a new service, making it easier than ever for whistle-blowers to report activities which may endanger state security including corruption, espionage and other criminal activities that go against the laws of the country…
India Outmaneuvers Ungrateful Tibetans
The Tibetan leadership have damaged India’s relationship with China on many occasions. But now India is pushing back against this exploitation and are using the CTA and the Tibetans in-exile as a tool to improve ties with China instead…
The Tibetan Leadership’s Worst Nightmares Have Come True
March was a terrible month for the Tibetan leadership as they received bad news after bad news. All of this negative news has come from just one source, and it just happens to be their biggest and most powerful sponsor — India…
Indian Minister Supports Dalai Lama Leaving India
During the opening of the ‘Thank You India’ campaign, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma spoke of India’s support for the Dalai Lama’s return to his country. The message is clear — India supports the Dalai Lama leaving and, along with him, the rest of the Tibetans…
India gives up ‘Tibet Card’
India has been playing the ‘Tibet card’ against China by using the presence of Tibetan refugees in their country to provoke the Chinese leadership. Recently however, a new perspective has been presented by none other than Phunchok Stobdan…
Nepal Arrests Activist for Holding Tibetan Flag
Recently, Nepal showed just how serious they are about the One China policy when they took Adak, a Tibetan activist, into custody after he posted a picture of himself holding a Tibetan flag in front of Kathmandu’s Boudhanath Stupa…
The Grass is Greener in China
Today, if one were to place oneself in any of the Indian border states of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh or Sikkim for example, it would be clear where the proverbial greener grass grows — on China’s side…
Inconveniencing India? Then return to Tibet!
Sikyong Lobsang Sangay has announced that Tibetans do not wish to present any inconvenience to their Indian hosts. However, the irony is that the Tibetans have done nothing BUT inconvenience India for the last 60 years…
Dhamchoe Nyima exposes Lama Tseta’s lies to Reuters
In a shocking tell-all video, Damchoe Nyima, a disillusioned former employee of the Tibetan government reveals that Lama Tseta is an outright liar and a schismatic ‘society destroyer’ who falsely claimed to have proof that Dorje Shugden practitioners are connected with the Chinese government…
Shocking – Dalai Lama statue thrown into river in Tibet
This shocking video shows a large group of Tibetans dumping a statue of the 14th Dalai Lama into a river. Even more shocking is the fact this all took place in Amdo, which is the province where the Dalai Lama was born and usually where his support is the strongest…
India presses Tibetan leadership to stop political activity against Beijing
In this article from the Hindustan Times, the Modi government has made it clear that it does not want the Tibetan administration to engage in political activities against Beijing. In fact, this message is now being conveyed openly and bluntly…
Dalai Lama and Tibetans given the cold shoulder by India
Reuters news agency has confirmed that India is toning down its stance against China, in hopes of calming ties and averting stand-offs like the Doklam border crisis last year…
Indians express the truth about the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans
The Tibetans are starting to lose Indian support. From a grassroots level all the way up to the highest echelons of government in Delhi, more and more Indians have begun voicing their discontent in relations to the Tibetans…
Tibetans urged not to thank India – just grow up
Lobsang Wangyal of TibetSun.com paints a realistic but very bleak picture of the Tibetan leadership’s current state of affairs in relations to the latest developments in Sino-Indian bilateral relations….
Himachal Pradesh Minister is a no show for Tibetan government event
Himachal Pradesh state minister Kishan Kapoor failed to turn up at a significant CTA-hosted event after initially confirming he would be in attendance. Mr. Kapoor had been confirmed as the Chief Guest of an official event commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day…
#thankyouindia2018 event fails
In the wake of Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s memo discouraging Indian officials from attending events hosted by the CTA, it has now come to light that the main event of the CTA’s year-long #thankyouindia2018 campaign has been moved from Delhi to Dharamsala…
Reuters reports on India banning 2018 Tibetan Uprising Day rally
International news media favourite, Reuters, has recently published a report of India’s banning Tibetans from holding Tibetan Uprising Day rallies in New Delhi this year…
India’s confidential memo on the Tibetans leaked
On 26th February 2018, a classified directive from the Indian Cabinet Secretary discouraging Indian officials from attending events held by the Tibetan leadership in India was leaked to the press…
The Dalai Lama’s Change of Tune
After over half a century of rousing Tibetan and global support against China, the Dalai Lama’s reversal in his stance and attitude towards China is not without some serious implications and repercussions…
Tibetan leadership allows 151st tragic self-immolation
The opinion piece below was sent to dorjeshugden.com for publication. We accept submissions from the public, please send in your articles to [email protected]. Dear readers, Why are the Tibetan government-in-exile not ordering their people to stop the self-immolations? For everything else, the Tibetan government acts as a dictatorship and not the democracy they…
ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༧ ཕྱི་ཟླ་༡༡ པར་ཀ་ལ་ཀ་ཏ་ནང་། ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་རྒྱ་ནག་མཉམ་དུ་སྡོད་འདོད་ཡོད་ཅེས།
ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༧ ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༡ ཚེས་ ༢༣ ཉིན། ཨེ་ཀོ་ནོ་མིག ཊེམ་ (Economic Times) ཞེས་པའི་གསར་ཤོག་ཏུ། རྒྱ་གར་ཚོང་ལས་ཚན་པ་ནས་གོ་སྒྲིག་བྱས་ཏེ་ཚོགས་འདུ་ཚོགས་པ་དེར་༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཉེས་འཆར་གྱི་དཔྱད་གཏམ་སྤེལ་དོན་ལ།
The 14th Dalai Lama Angers Nepal
The opinion piece below was sent to dorjeshugden.com for publication. We accept submissions from the public, please send in your articles to [email protected]. By: Shashi Kei There are four places of pilgrimage that are considered a must-visit for all Buddhist practitioners of all traditions. One of these places is the Buddha’s birthplace in…
CTA Neglects Tibetans in Tibet
Amidst the petty bickering about who is right, who is wrong, who said what, which supporters are more violent and where did the money go – what everyone has forgotten is the welfare of the Tibetans in Tibet…
CTA: A stunted democracy
It has been a turbulent few years for the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA; Tibetan leadership), fraught which many exposes about their behavior and lack of concern for their own population. It is a view that is rapidly picking up steam amongst the Tibetan community These are the facts: There are never any new viable candidates…
Indians openly demand Tibetans go home
The opinion piece below was sent to dorjeshugden.com for publication. We accept submissions from the public, please send in your articles to [email protected]. By: Solaray Kusco In 2014, the Indian government initiated a policy called the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy (TRP). Supporters say that the TRP was the Indian government’s attempt to boost the…
The 11th Panchen Lama’s Kalacakra Initiation: The Beginning of the End for the CTA
When it was announced that H.H. the 11th Panchen Lama would be conducting a Kalacakra initiation in his summer palace, Dechen Kelsang Phodrang in Shigatse, it became clear that the Dalai Lama and his supporters saw what was in fact a victory for the Dharma, to be a matter of concern instead…
World Shugden Convention Held in Bangkok
The World Shugden Convention was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 2-3 April 2016. Sponsored by the North America Gelug Buddhist Association, the meeting was graced with the presence of over 20 notable Shugden lamas, practitioners and defenders of the lineage…
The Unreliability of the Nechung Oracle
It is widely believed that, since the time of the 13th Dalai Lama until today, the Nechung oracle has been under the influence of an evil spirit instead of Nechung/Pehar, thus causing much mischief and problems for the Tibetan peoples such as the untimely death of the 13th Dalai Lama…
Mission Failure at the International Campaign for Tibet
As Chinese battleships advance in the South China Sea, breaking news that 147 people in Tibet have now set their bodies on fire to protest the Chinese Communist occupation of their homeland adds to fearful tremors racing through Asia about China’s rise…
Ganden Dhamcholing Monastery in Markham, Tibet
On 16 December 2014, a new Dorje Shugden monastery opened its doors to the public in Markham, Tibet. Home to some 200 Buddhist monks who were expelled from a larger monastery in Markham…
A Speech By Kyabje Denma Gonsa Rinpoche
In this speech, Denma Gonsa Rinpoche tells his students that they should maintain guru devotion even at the cost of their lives, meaning to say that they should never go against their gurus nor abandon the practices that their gurus have given them…
The Five Causes That Will Bring Down The Ban
The heat is on. While the International Shugden Community’s ongoing protests for the Dalai Lama to lift the Dorje Shugden ban is getting the most attention, there are four other powerful, unstoppable rivers that are flowing into the walls of the ban, slowly but surely bringing it down…
9th Monlam Chenmo in Chogdong Monastery, Tibet
Chogdong Monastery (or Chagdrung Monastery) in Kham, Tibet celebrated their 9th Annual Monlam Chenmo festival in July 2014. The celebrations centered around a vast open plain, with huge tents erected to accommodate the thousands of monks and lay people who gathered to celebrate this auspicious occasion…
400,000 in Chatreng Sampheling Monastery!
An astounding 400,000 people attended the Monlam Festival in Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche’s Sampheling Monastery in Chatreng, Tibet from 5-12 March, 2014. The Gelugpa Monlam Chenmo (or Great Prayer Festival) was established by Lama Tsongkapa in 1049…
Jigme Norbu (1831-1861), the Fourth Zhabdrung Mind Incarnation
High Lamas can manifest in different forms, such as the Mind emanation, Body emanation or Speech emanation. Jigme Norbu was a layman who was recognised as the Mind emanation of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594-1651). To understand the importance of this incarnation, we must look at the achievements of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, who was the reincarnation…
China’s View on Shugden
Dear Dharma friends, While Tibet fights the ongoing noble cause for independence, it looks like the Chinese have other plans. Below is an article written by one of China’s leading newspapers about the Dorje Shugden issue, namely the ban instituted by the Dalai Lama against this Protector deity. Although the article was written in the…
Relationship with China
Dear ministers and representatives of the Central Tibetan Administration, I am writing to you with great concern over a very urgent matter. I request you to please pay attention to this, because it is affecting Tibetan people’s relationship with China and the potential problems that can arise. For many years, the Tibetan government, people and…