The Chinese government has condemned President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, which was held despite China’s protests. From Reuters: China accused the United States on Sunday of “grossly”...
Read MoreThe Associated Press reports that Barack Obama has invited the visiting Dalai Lama to the White House. Employing a low-key approach, the White House has set the meeting in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office, which is...
Read MoreSpeaking at the start of an 11 day visit to Australia, the Dalai Lama said that China as a whole is not his enemy. Beijing’s economic importance to the country, however, may deny him a meeting with its Prime Minister. When...
Read MoreThe Dalai Lama may no longer the Tibetan Prime-Minister-in-Exile (he was replaced by newly elected Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay), but the Tibetan government-in-exile has announced it will offer the Dalai Lama a specially...
Read MoreHarvard academic Lobsang Sangay has been elected to become the new Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile. From the Atlantic: Exiled Tibetans elected a 43-year-old Harvard academic to replace the Dalai Lama in his role as...
Read MoreRecent standoff between Chinese military forces and Tibetan monks in Ngaba County in Sichuan has been escalating over the past month. The Dalai Lama has now spoken out, hoping Tibetan protesters will show greater restraint and...
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Tibet scholar Robert Barnett writes about the Dalai Lama’s recent announcement that he was retiring from his political position as head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, and explains why,...
Read MoreIn Foreign Policy, Tibet expert Robert Barnett writes about the Dalai Lama’s recent announcement that he would resign his political position as head of Tibet’s government-in-exile in favor of a freely elected Prime...
Read MoreThe Potala Palace in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama’s former home, by tianyake
Read MoreThe Dalai Lama announced that he will soon give up his political title as head of the TIbetan Government-in-Exile in favor of a Prime Minister freely elected by the exile community in Dharamsala. From the Guardian: In a speech...
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