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Kalon Tripa Attends Educational and Social Welfare Programmes in Kolkata |
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Source : tibet.net
DHARAMSALA, 21-01-2012: During his visit to Kolkata on 20 January, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay inaugurated the Tagore Centre for Transformative Education and engaged in programmes for education and women empowerment in the region’s poorest rural areas.
Kalon Tripa began his day’s programme by visiting rural areas where the Young Men’s Welfare Society (YMWS) is working with the poorest people in Kolkata to provide them with primary health care and primary education. Kalon Tripa visited primary schools, and interacted with schoolchildren of class I – IV to encourage them to study hard.
As requested by YMWS, Kalon Tripa visited rural women who are being supported by the former’s women empowerment initiative. During the visit, Kalon Tripa interacted with some 18 – 20 poor women and distributed interest free loans to them as part of the project’s micro finance scheme.
Kalon Tripa also inaugurated a new tube well, which is part of YMWS’s efforts to alleviate grave shortage of drinking water in the rural areas.
After concluding his visit to the rural areas, Kalon Tripa paid a visit to a missionary of late Mother Teresa and the latter’s tomb.
Following this, Kalon Tripa inaugurated the Tagore Centre for Transformative Education in commemoration of the India’s first Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. In his address, Dr Sangay emphasised on the promotion of serving for others’ well-being. He underlined the importance of education and to use the power of education in social welfare services.
Other eminent speakers at the event include the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Bishop of Kolkata, Mr Gautam Ghose, one of the most acclaimed film directors of modern India, Mr Ikara, member of ICSE, and Mr Shaurab Mukherjee, Chairman of Young Men’s Welfare Society.
Kalon Tripa left Kolkata this morning for a visit to Tibetan Settlement in Miao. |
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Human rights situation ‘getting worse’ in China, says US ambassador |
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Source : Phayul[Thursday, January 19, 2012 02:45]
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DHARAMSHALA, January 19: Drawing sharp reactions from Beijing, the US ambassador to China, Gary Locke has said that the communist nation’s human rights record was deteriorating.
"The human rights climate has always ebbed and flowed in China, up and down, but we seem to be in a down period and it's getting worse," Ambassador Gary Locke told interviewer Charlie Rose on US public television earlier this week.
The timing of Ambassador Locke’s comments is being considered critical as it comes days after the 17th Tibetan self-immolated protesting China’s rule over Tibet and weeks before China’s heir apparent Vice President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit America. In fact, the ambassador was in Washington to hold discussions ahead of Xi’s visit.
Ambassador Locke said that the increasing detentions of democracy activists, dissidents, and lawyers in China, following the “Arab Spring” were clear pointers at the threat the country’s communist leaders felt from mass pro-democracy uprisings.
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Auguri di buon Natale e di un felice anno nuovo! |
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Auguri di buon Natale e di un felice anno nuovo!
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“Beat a Tibetan, get extra credit,” shout Chinese students |
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Source ; phayul.com
DHARAMSHALA, December 17: Over 3000 Chinese students went on a rampage Wednesday night, beating Tibetan students and breaking into their dormitories and class rooms in a Chinese vocational institute in Chengdu.
According to the Beijing based award-winning Tibetan writer Woeser, the incident took place at a Chinese railway engineering vocational institute in the provincial capital city of Chengdu. Around 200 Tibetan students were held hostage as 3000 Chinese students attacked their dormitory, trashing the Tibetan students and breaking the doors, windows, and furniture.
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Confluence of Science and Buddhism in Dharamsala |
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Source : tibet.net, 17-12-2011
Dharamsala :His Holiness the Dalai Lama today inaugurated a three-day international conference on ‘Cosmology and Consciousness’, which brought together Tibetan Buddhist scholars and top scientists to explore ways to promote the integration of spiritual values and scientific investigations.
The conference is an initiative of the Science for Monks Program under the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA), which has taught science to Tibetan monks since 2001 under the inspiration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Sager Science Leadership Institute, Emory University, and John Templeton Foundation are part of this initiative.
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