Topic: Dharamsala
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama announced on Thursday that he was stepping down as political leader of the Tibetan government in exile."As early as the 1960s, I have repeatedly stressed that Tibetans need a leader, elected freely by the Tibetan ...
The Dalai Lama was stumped. It's an often-told story among American Buddhists (one version, by Sharon Salzberg, who actually asked the question at a conference in Dharmsala in 1990, is here), I suppose because it illustrates one of tradition's attraction ...
The recent threat against the life of the Dalai Lama was attributed by a number of news sources to Osama bin Laden. He has described the Dalai Lama as "a false religious leader" and curiously enough likened China's struggle with him ...
In the morning the travel agent Naresh and a driver first took me to the Boudhanath Stupa, which Samaya, one of the people with whom I had stayed in Dharamsala, India, had told me is ? After the car stopped on the crowded ...
I met up with my tour guide Gyantzing, and the driver took us to Drepung Monastery, an eleventh century monastery just outside of Lhasa. He?s a major figure in Tibetan history and legend and founded the Gelugpa sect, which is the ...
The Land of HimachalPopularly known as the Devbhumi ?? " Land of theGods", Himachal Pradesh is a beautiful hill state in northern India nestled in western Himalayas. After Independence, 30 princely states of the areawere united and Himachal Pradesh was formed on 15th April ...
This hub gives you an illustrated view of Himachal PradeshTourism and the most important places to be visited. An attempt has been made to portray the significance ofeach location for the benefit of tourists, who wishes to enjoy the awesomebeauty of nature ...
I arrived about ten minutes early for the author event at the Basil Halward Gallery at Powell?s City of Books on Burnside in downtown Portland. He wasn?t familiar with low self-esteem, and in order to find out what it was ...
The following hub was originally a paper that I wrote in the latter part of the 1980s. Names have been changed in certain places to protect the privacy of people and locations.Living among Tibetan people from September to late December of ...
Situated in North India, Himachal Pradesh (Abode of Snow) is surrounded by Jammu & Kashmir on the north; Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh to the south; Uttaranchal to the south east and the Chinese territory of Tibet to the east. The state is mostly ...
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India Tibetan
Lhakpa Tsering, center with white scarves, is greeted by school children as ...AP News - -
India Tibet Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks to Tibetan students at the ...AP News - -
India Tibet New Year
Tibetan Buddhist monks serve Tibetan butter tea to their fellows during a ...AP News -
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Impressions from Dharamsala
When the Dalai Lama left Tibet, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal ...2007-06-15 -
Upper Dharamsala Mcleod Ganj (HP)
Take a walk around this small Himachal town in Northern ...2007-05-07 -
Living The Monastery Life in Dharamsala ...
In these video clips you will see Terry Hodgkinson aka ...2011-08-19
