The renowned Tibetologist, Donald Lopez Jr, recently published an excellent account of how Tibetan Buddhism in the West was decontextualised and sanitised. Lopez Jr, echoing a recent spate of similar
Dharamsala had it coming, obviously. The swing of the media pendulum is vicious and whatever is lionised gets trashed, sooner or later. With the surfeit of Hollywood productions and personalities
Kathmandu is closer to Beijing than to Lhasa.
Till as late as the first decade of this century, the government in Kathmandu paid tribute to the Chinese court. Once every
The Sino-Indian border dispute has a lot to do with Tibet's past.
It is common knowledge that one of the most contentious issues that has bedevilled the
The periphery is now in demand, and the Baltis have got ideas.cr
Billed a primitive place, unchanged, isolated, remote, with the greatest concen tration of high mountain peaks in
The world differentiates between the two populations of the Ladakh region of India´s extreme north – one Muslim, the other Buddhist — in interesting ways. Outsiders, be they from New Delhi
Tibet: The Road Ahead
by Dawa Norbu Harper Collins Publishers India, New
Delhi, 1997 INR 395, pp 378, ISBN 81 7223 238 1
Contemporary books about pre-1950 Tibet tend
The Dalai Lama´s welcome in Taiwan represents an economically comfortable Chinese population seeking some spiritual sustenance.
The Dalai Lama´s trip to Taiwan gives an inkling of the future,
Himal South Asia had presented a report in its September edition on the accusations and counter-accusations between the Dalai Lama ´camp´ and the Shugden Supporters Community (SSC), a Buddhist
The ongoing temporal struggle between the Dalai Lama as head of the Gelugpa sect and the Britain-based Shugden community is part of a tradition that goes back to power
The neglect of Tibet by South Asia's intellectuals is insensitive and ignoble. Even if they were to ignore the Tibetans in exile, what of the Tibetans within Tibet?
